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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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snow. Similar records are given elsewhere. Thegeneral manager of another important line using the plows .statesthat without them it would have been impossible to have operatedmany of this companys lines extending into the outskirts of thecity. No one can make a mistake in using the Ruggles rotary snowplows for exposed lines. Roller Bearings for Street Cars. Roller bearings have proved such an economical agent in .somany varieties of machinery that it may have seemed surprising tosome that they have not been more extt nsively used in the axleboxes of electric cars. The subject is one which should intereststreet railway managers as it relates directly to reducing the co.st ofoperating electric cars Experiments have been made in this lineby the Hyatt Roller Bearing Company and this company has nowplaced on the market and will show at St. Louis one of its bearingsfor car axles. Anxious not to place a device of this kind on themarket until it should be perfected, the company has done prac-
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ROLLER BEARING FOR STREET CARS. tically nothing until the present time in exploiting this devicealthough it was invented several years ago, but has devoted theintervening time to careful tests of the bearing under differentconditions of street railwaj traffic. The.se tests have given suchuniversally satisfactory results that it is with full confidence thatthe bearing will satisfactorily stand the ardous conditions of electricrailway service that it is now presented for public approval. Soon after the Milwaukee convention in 1S93 at which the bear-ing was exhibited one of the heaviest cars of the Milwaukee Elec-tric Railwa) & Light Company was equipped with these boxes.They are in service on the car yet withont having required any re-newals or repairs and with no appreciable wear on the rollers. Theboxes in use on the Albany Railway have also had an equally goodrecord. The chief point of difference between these and other rollerbearings lies in the fact that the rollers instead of

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