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Title: The Street railway journal The works of the J. Fowler Car Co.
Year: 1894 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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o the minimum all necessary transportation,the receipt of lumber being at the north - western end of the works, and the shipment of the cars at the eastern end, as shown. Following the raw material as it is handled at this factory, we enter,first, the kiln-dry rooms. These are two in number,with concrete floors, and have a total capacity of 60,000ft. of lumber each. The process of drying and seasoning is aided by a draft of hot air supplied by a Sturtevant blower fan which keeps a continuous current of hot air passing through the rooms. Adjoining the kiln-dry rooms is a lumber shed, with a capacity of 500,000 ft. of kiln-dried lumber, and opening into this is a third build- ing containing, on the ground floor, the mill, and on the second floor, the cabinet shop. Both of these are furnished with a great variety of woodworking machinery, of the latest pattern, necessary for performing the varied work pertaining to the manufacture of street cars. Continuing in the direction which the material takes,
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oo trO the visitor next enters the body shop, where the different parts, when finished in the mill and cabinet shop, are taken to be fitted together. A spur from the railroad tracks enters into this room through the covered passage-way already mentioned, which is thirty-two feet wide and is lighted by skylights. This enables the company to load the bodies of the cars and the trucks directly on to the platform cars for shipment. On each side of this passageway are located the rest 54 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. X. No. i. of the buildings comprising the factory of the J. W. Fowler Car Company (Elizabethport N.J.). The order of their arrangement can be seen from the engraving. Each building is two stories in height and entirely distinct from those on each side, though connected by passageways on each floor, so that easy access is allowed from one to the other. These dif-

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