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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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e ex-perience and manu-facturing facilities ofthis company for highpressure work are a guarantee that nothing but good and tight work with a safe andefficient apparatus will be furnished. The Goubert Manufacturing Company has already supplied thesecombined separators and receivers to a number of large powerplants. Among them may be mentioned the United Electric Light &Power Company, of New York; West End Railway Company, ofBoston, and Nassau Electric Railroad Company, of Brooklyn. The accompanying engraving shows two of four of these Strattoncombined separators and steam receivers connected to 1200 h. p. The accompanying engraving shows one of the recent doubletruck cars built for the West End Street Railway, of Boston, by theLaconia Car Company, and mounted on the Baker swivel truck, thecharacteristics of which are short wheel base and simplicity of con-struction. This truck has been adopted as standard for double truckcars bv the West End Company. It was designed by the companys
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BOSTON STANDARD LONG CAR. master mechanic and is manufactured at the L,aconia Car Com-panys works. The following are some of the principal dimensions of the car:Length of body over panels, 25 ft.; length of car over platform, 32 ft.II ins.; length over bonnets, 33 ft. i in.; width of bottom overpanels, 6 ft. 8 ins.; width between seat rails, 3 ft. 5 ins.; the widthof roof at plates all over, 7 ft. g)4 ins.; width of body over posts, 7 ft.6 ins.; height, bottom of sill to top of trolley plank, 8 ft. ins.;height from step to platform, 13 ins. Aprii,, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 255 The Works of a Large Car Company. The Wason Manufacturing Company is one of the oldest estab-lishments in the United Stales engaged in the manufacture of cars.It began with the building of freight cars by T. W. Wason in1845. Car building of all kinds was then in its infancy and passengerwork was only another form of coach or omnibus building. It is and extends on both sides of the Connecticut Valley Railro

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