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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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in sparking shields and otherinsulating parts of controllers, controller handles, and, in fact, inalmost any place where insulating material is used. They alsoshowed some new forms of trolley standards for center or siderunning, and for top-seat or single deck cars. They showed, also,a trolley head of the swiveling type, fitted with a ball-bearingturntable, and also a number of samples of the Garton lightningarrester. A model of a conduit and surface contact system(Steudebachs combined) was also exhibited. THE ROLLER BEARINGS COMPANY exhibited samplesof roller bearings, as adapted to Pc-.-kham and Brill trucks, shaft-ing bearings, trolley bearings, etc. FREDERICK LELL exhibited some samples of steam sep-arators, grease extractors, automatic exhaust valves, jet con-densers, as well as a Bemis truck. He also showed some hand-some photographs of the Ball & Wood engine. EDWARD BENNIS & COMPANY, of Bolton, showed aninteresting machine stoker and self-cleaning furnace at work. This
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VIEW OF EXHIBITION FROM REAR OF HALL furnace has been adopted by many of the tramway companies, asit raises steam rapidly, and any class of coal can be used. G. F. ZIMMER, of London, had on exhibition models of theKreiss patent swinging conveyor, which, by means of vibrations,conveys coal or other material with a very small expenditure inpower. DOCKER BROTHERS, of Birmingham, showed some sam-ples of varnishes and paints suitable for tramway cars. THE KLEIN ENGINEERING COMPANY, of Manchester,exhibited models of its patent water coolers, used in conjunctionwith condensing engines at power plants. Oil separators werealso shown, and a number of interesting photographs, showingKleins counter-current jet condensers in course of erection at theLiverpool Corporations new electric power house at Lister Drive. LE CARBONE showed samples of carbon brushes, which arethe principal specialty of this firm, as well as carbon-contact pieces,carbons for arc lamps, crucibles, primary batteries and a numb

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