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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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, and 75per cent overload for shorter periods. The specifications of the Metropolitan Company were very ex-acting, and the motors represent the very highest possible practicein electrical construction. Each Westinghouse car equipment forthe Paris underground includes two complete motors with gears,gear casings and suspension springs; two controllers, automatic-safety circuit-breakers, safety fuse blocks and lightning arresters;also contact shoes, a complete car wiring for light and power, andelectric couplers for supplying current to the trailer cars. The armatures are of the slotted drum type with two-circuitwindings. The core is of sheet steel of the highest magneticquality. The armature is wound with copper bars, nearly rect-angular in section, forged into shape without joints. Ventilationof the armature is adequate to stand very heavy overloads, andthe motor frame is designed in such a way as to allow ample circu-lation of air through the motor windings, the openings for this pur-
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WESTINGHOUSE NO. 70 MOTOR only at officially designated stations, at each of which the wait-ing passengers are supplied with tickets, numbered in the orderin which they were purchased. Upon the arrival of a particularomnibus the tickets that have been sold are called out in order,and only those passengers are allowed upon the bus whose ticketscome first in order—provided, of course, the omnibus is not largeenough for the entire number. This fits in nicely with the Frenchidea of equality, but it has always proved very tiresome to Ameri-can tourists. The Metropolitan Underground has brought the first real reliefto this condition of things. In October, 1898, seventy Westing-house motors were ordered from the Societe Industrielle dElec-tricite, Procedes Westinghouse for the new road. These motorsare of the type designated by the makers as the Westinghouse No.70, which are in regular service on some of the most prominentstreet railways of the United States, excepting, of course, that the

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