Identifier: streetrailwayrev04amer (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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tracks at Aurora, 111., recently, and actually blocked The Altoona Manufacturing Company, of Altoona,Pa., reports the following orders for the M. A. Greenautomatic cut off engines, received during June: One 280-horse-power engine for the Akron Street Railway Com-pany, of Akron, O., to be direct coupled to a 250-horse-power generator, built by the Walker ManufacturingCompany, of Cleveland, O.; one iSO-horse-powerenclosed type self-oiling engine, for the Watson Mining& Manufacturing Company, of Monongahela City, Pa.,for an electric mining and haulage plant; one 65-horse-power enclosed type self-oiling engine, for the LyceumTheater, Philadelphia; one 175-horse-power standardcenter crank engine, for the Freeport Electric Companj,Freeport, 111.; one 65-horse-power enclosed type self-oiling engine, for Knight Brothers, Fayette, la. Thereis considerably more inquiry, and with a settlement of therailroad strike it is believed that a substantial improve-ment in business will be the result.
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ELECTRIC GRAIN CAR AT SPOKANE. the cars, so great was their number. A gang of shov-elers was sent out and several car loads of the innocentJune bugs were precipitated into the river. The Ohio Brass Company, of Mansfield, Ohio, is dis-tributing to the trade a neatly gotten up price list of rail-way motor bearings. It includes all the different stylesof bearings for the various types of railway motors.This company is pushing its line of material actively, andincreasing orders show that both quality of stock andworkmanship are satisfactory. The railway apparatus built by the Card Electric Com-pany, of Mansheld, O., is progressing in its fame andname among the street railways. The controlling standis favorably regarded on account of its simplicity, consist-ing as it does of a series of break switches, doing awaywith sliding contacts. J. Holt Gates, 1139-40 Monad-nock building, Chicago, general western agent, reportsmany inquiries and an encouraging amount of work onhand. Card motors are n

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