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Identifier: streetrailwa318861887newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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FIG. 1. END VIEW OF CAR. peculiar details of the mechanism whichhave been employed. TheBentleyKnight Electric Railway. The Bentley-Knight system of electricmotive power for tramways has beenbrought prominently forward by the grantof a franchise to the North and East RiverRailway Company, whose line runsthrough Fulton street, New York, to Walland Pavonia Ferries, in which franchisethis system is expressly named. The patents of the Messrs. Bentley andKnight, who were for years electrical exam-iners in the United States Patent Office, areespecially applicable to the use of electric-ity in the paved and sewered stree ts of cities,where the exacting requirements of muni-cipal authorities and of heavy traffic must
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ped car in side elevation and section. Themotor and all mechanism is carried by thestreet truck-frame which form a rigid con-nection between the wheels (see cuts 8 and4), allowing any type of car-body to be usedand making it easy to change from closedto open bodies whenever desired. are interchangeable, reduced to the utmostsimplicity, noiseless in operation and builtof exceptional strength, the motors espe-cially being of a new and improved form,giving great durability and efficiency. Thegovernment of the motor is effected bymeans of the ordinary brake handle, so 332 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. April, 1887. thatin the act of putting down brakes, themotor is automatically cut out before thebrakes are set, and after the latter are re-leased the motor is again brought intoservice. A car can be reversed at anytime. There is no complication of levers or These plows can be thrown out of the con-duit at will at any point in the line andfold up under the car. They also are auto-matically thr

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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  • bookleafnumber:350
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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