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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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nded the convention: F. B.Jones, L. A. Gray and W. vS. Bartholomew, all of Chicago, and H.E. Keeler, of New York. The Sargent Company, of Chicago, made an exhibit of its! Congdon and Conipo brake shoes. The Compo shoe ismade of special cast iron with plugs of seasoned spruce wood forcedinto pockets in such a manner that they cannot come out. The Congdon shoe is of soft cast iron with wrought iron inserts.They give practically the same friction as ordinary cast iron shoes,but, it is claimed,-wear much longer and cost but little more. The 722 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol.. XII. No. II. Sargent Company has an enormous brake shoe trade on steamroads and is building up a large trade with electric roads. E. L,.Adreon, Jr., represented the company. The Trojan Button Fastener Company, Troy. N. Y., exhib-ited the Ham sand box recently drawn out by it. The box consistsof two boxes set side by side. The larger box is a storage reservoirwith an opening through which the sand flows into the second
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EXHIBIT OF FOREST CITY ELECTRIC CO. which is in reality only a curved shelf with upturned edges. Apaddle reciprocates over this shelf and each movement of it pushesthe sand over the upturned ends of the shelf to the feed spout whichleade to the track. It will be seen that the operation box reallyconsists of dipping the sand out of the top of the box and feedinga small quantity at a time. R. T. Ham was present. Limburg, Sickel & Company, sole agents for the Trentontrolley wagon for the patentees and manufacturers, McCardell,West & Company, exhibited one of their trolley wagons for overheadline construction. The tower in this wagon is telescopic in con-struction and when lowered occupies but little room on the street.The upper part is raised by a crank and windlass and can be lockedwith the tower at any height. When the desired height of thetower is reached, the platform can be revolved in any position de-sired and can then be set. The body of the wagon was painted arich maroon.

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