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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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pularity inthat country. The difficulty of obtaining new tramway cars onshort or even moderately long notice had long been felt, and withthe increasing number of electric roads in the United Kingdomthere was a large demand for an extensive addition to the carbuilding facilities of the country. For this reason the support of motors being fitted to the electric cars. The experimental trackin the grounds is also a prominent feature. The steam is generated by two Galloway boilers, each 28 ft.long by 7 ft. 6 ins. diameter, and having a nominal rating of 225h.p. The engine is of the horizontal compound type, with auto-matic fly-wheel governor, and is coupled direct to a Mather &Piatt multipolar dynamo. The size of the engine is 14 in. and25 in. x 24 in. stroke. Its output is 325 i.h.p. at 150 r.p.m., thesteam pressure being 120 lbs. per sq. in. This plant is now beingduplicated, and any possible breakdown will thus be avoided. The main switchboard consists of slate panels, mounted on an
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GENERAL VIEW OF PRESTON WORKS prominent home capitalists was enlisted, and the extensive worksat Preston were the result. The directors of these works areChairman George Richardson, Richard H. Prestwick, George F.Fry, Robert B. Barningham, Robert S. Boddington, John Kerrand Geoge Flett. The manager of the company is E. A. Stanley,formerly of the Jackson & Sharp Company, of Wilmington, Del.,and the secretary, J. Baynes. The works are close to the Albert Edward Docks, and the RiverRibble, and have sidings into them from the London & NorthWestern and the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways. There is iron framework, and from it there are run separate distributingfeeders for lighting and for power in each of the shops. Thepressure is 230 volts, which is considered the most suitable forcombined distribution to motors, incandescent and arc light, andby a special arrangement of the switchboard the dynamo and astorage battery, which under normal conditions are operated inparallel, can

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