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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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los-ing the side of the car completely. The inside finish is of cherry and it has been fitted for such enormous boiler installations asthose of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Kaiser Friedrich,Oceanic, Campania, Lucania, etc. For water-tube boilerfeeding on Belleville, Thorneycroft, Normand, Babcock & Wilcox,and other installations in H. M. Navy, it is used almost exclusivelyand is largely adopted by almost every navy afloat. Messrs. Weirhave for some time been putting on the market an adaptation oftheir pump for land boiler feeding, and attention is called herewithto a few of the points of this specialty. The Weir direct acting feed pump of the single cylinder type,double acting and vertical. It has positive valve gear, actuatedfrom the piston rod, so that there is no dead center, and it startsat any part of the stroke on steam being turned on. The steamvalve consists of a main valve and an auxiliary valve, and is ar-ranged to cut off before the end of the stroke. In fact, economy
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FOUR TEEN-BENCH TRAIL CAR FOR WILKESBARRE and ash, with a three-ply handsomely decorated headlining. Thereare no alarm gongs, no trap doors nor trolley boards. The grabhandles are of ash, set in bronze sockets. There is a five-lightcluster set in the center of the car, and four-light clusters at eachend, one light being placed under the hood of each platform.The drawbar centers arc 30 ins. above the head of the rail. Theselong cars are arranged to radiate very freely, and they can runround curves of only 30 ft. radius. Such a car gives seating capa-city for seventy persons. What its carrying capacity is it wouldbe difficult to say. In some cities cars of this type are oftencrowded with one hundred or more people. This car, althoughhaving so large a capacity, weighs but 18,300 lbs. The trucksthemselves weigh less than 4000 lbs. each. While the car is amply strong for the purpose, the absence ofthe motors and arrangements for carrying them greatly reduce thetotal load carried. Feed Pomp

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