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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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h, up to fortyfeet if necessary, so that defects, through careless soldering and con-sequent leakage, as in the sheet metal bars, are an impossibility. 8. The method used for making a watertight joint at the junctionwhere two panes of glass meet, which permits the glass to be buttedinstead of being lapped, will commend itself to all. The cross bar isusually made of strong copper or other sheet metal. The Engineers for the Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge have adoptedthe Paradigm Skylight System for the big skylights on the new Terminal Stationsnow being built 011 each side of the East River—New York and Brooklyn—about 45,000sq. ft., and contracts have been made with General Contractors tor the work. PARADIGM CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, n a ■ #■ ■ *v m Infringements will be vduuon rig igorously Prosecuted. 41 Pine Street, New York. AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN. XL THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. X. No. 5. CURTIS ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO. Electric Motor Car Equipments.
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CURTIS STANDARD (30 H. P.) MOTOR The Brooklyn City Railroad Co. has had25 Double 30 H. P. Curtis Equipments inservice with hundreds of motors of two otherleading; makes. They have recently ordered120 additional Curtis Motors and ControllingApparatus. These Motors, and the Curtis Series Multiple Platform Controllers, etc., have been in con-stant service on many street railroads, and have invariably givenperfect satisfaction. We refer, among others, to Brooklyn City Railroad Co., - Brooklyn, N. Y. Consolidated Traction Co., - Jersey City, N. J. Citizens Passenger Railway Co., - - Norristown, Pa. Reading & Southwestern Railway Co., - Reading, Pa. Portsmouth Street Railroad & Light Co., Portsmouth, O. Oil City Street Railway Co., - - - Oil City, Pa. EFFICIENCY.—Tests made officially by two railway companies have shown thatthe Curtis equipments are more efficient—consume less current—than either of the otherwell-known types of street car equipment. The Improved Motor made hy

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