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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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Days kerite wires and cables,was represented by G. F. Porter, New York manager, who hadsamples of this product with him. This company has recentlytaken some of the big orders in the street railway line. cables, which of late have made so distinct a place for themselvesin electrical transmission and allied work. A few samples of otheraluminum goods were also shown by J. A. Rutherford, representa-tive. THE FRANK RIDLON COMPANY, of Boston, was repre-sented by Chas. N. Wood, who exhibited a Wilson trolley-polecatcher, which he showed in operation with a Nuttall pole. The 828 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XV. No. n. compact little round box containing the roll-up machine is easilyattachable to the dashboard and the cord is held at the pointwhere the conductor sets it, so that his mind and hands havegreater freedom to attend to his more legitimate business of look-ing after the passengers and collecting fares that would otherwisebe missed. The attachment is inexpensive, simple, and does not
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get out of order. It not onlyprevents trolley-pole accidents,but it keeps out of sight all thecord that is otherwise a nuisanceby dangling idly. Testimonialsthat it kept the pole in positionwere shown from those usingthe device, testifying to its valueon trolley cars, particularly inplaces where the high speed ofrunning was likely to throw thetrolley off. THE TAUNTON LOCO-MOTIVE MANUFACTUR-ING COMPANY, of Taunton,Mass., was represented by W. R.Billings, treasurer; J. C. Sproat,J. H. Wright, agent, Lancaster,Ohio, and Messrs. Wendell &MacDume, both of these NewYorkers being also on hand. The exhibit was made wholly in theopen air, and comprised a double-truck share snow plow, a noseplow and a snow sweeper, the last being the companys initialattempt in this direction. The double-truck plow has a longleveler that can be swung out widely from the cars, and which canlevel down the snow for carting away, sleighing, etc. Some sev-enty of the plows have been sold this year. The sweeper sh

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