Identifier: streetrailwayrev05amer (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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car houseand furnishing equipment for the Gloucester, Essex &Beverly Street Railway Company. 338 (^J^ud^ff^aiUvaj^j^eyl^ THE D. F. HENRY TRUCK. THE SEMI-ANNUAL CHANGE OF CARBODIES. President D. F. Henry, of the Federal Street & PleasantValley Passenger Railway, is the inventor of a radial andnon-oscillating truck, a description of which has beenlooked forward to for some time by a number of streetrailway men, and which is a radical departure from allestablished practice in truck building. The whole weightof truck and car body is carried by four semi-ellipticsprings which rest on the journal boxes and from which The change from winter to summer equipment has nowbeen completed on the majority of roads and the extrainvestment, time and expense involved in this operationis again brought to mind. Very few think they are ableto undergo the e.\pense of an investment in trucks andmotors for both summer and winter cars, although thereare a few roads so partially equipped. Some managers
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D. F. HENRY S NEW TRUCK. the truck is hung by links. These links allow the axlesto move longitudinally with reference to the truck. Thepeculiar formation of the journal boxes is such that thewheels and axles can turn to conform with the radius ofvery short curves. At the same time the link suspensionof the truck tends to keep the wheels in line so that thereis little danger of jumping the track. D. H. McDonald,the master mechanic, reports that the truck is a tracksaver and that it is found that the life of wheels is muchlonger, not to mention the saving in power. Mr. Henryis to be congratulated on his success as a truck designeras well as an electric road manager. He has had abundantopportunities to study the qualities necessary to a prac-tical and successful truck and has apparently combinedthem in an efficient manner. In the May issue of tlie Rilvievv was an interestingillustrated description of the convertible car invented byMr. Henry, which has attracted considerable attention and

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