Identifier: streetrailwayrev13amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ave received a very gratifyingrecognition and orders for compression riveting machines, pneu-matic hammers, and pneumatic motor hoists covering its capacityfor several months are now booked. Several new types of com-pression riveting machines have recently been brought out, in addi-tion to those which have been on sale for several years, anil thecompany will have one of the most complete lines of pneumaticmachinery handled by any corcern in the business. NEW INTERURBAN CAR. The accompanying engraving is a view nf a car representing ashipment of about 50 cars built for the New Hampshire TractionCo., by the Laconia Car Co., of Boston. Tliis car is 30 ft. 2 in. longover the body; 39 ft. 6 in. over vcstilniles; 8 ft. 2 in. wide overposts; has straight sides, sheathed; steam car type of roof; finishedin cherry; ceilings of quartered oak; curtains of Crown patternmounted on Hartshorn rollers with fixtures supplied by the Cm-tainSupply Co. There are 11 double sash windows on a side, arranged
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I..\L<)NIA CAR KOR NEW IIAMISHIKK TRACTION CO. it and it is stated joints can be tested at the rate of one hundredper hour. The Boston Elevated Railway Co. is using the instrument in test-ing the bonding on the third rail, while current is on, as well ason the track rail joints. The motor testing instrument locates the defective motor coilswithout the necessity of opening the motor or disconnecting itswiring and thus enables a defect to be repaired or a bad field coilto be replaced before the trouble spreads to the rest of the winding.When a motor with a baked or weak field spool is operating withanother motor whose field is perfect and therefore stronger, theweak motor docs the most of the work and necessarily deterioratesits perfect coils much more quickly on account of the overloadedcondition of its windings. As this deterioration covers a period ofsome months, a test at any convenient time will locale the exactspool that may be defective and it may then be removed at once orat

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