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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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SHALL I SEND YOU PRICES AMD PARTICULARS ? THOMAS F. CAREY, gol™,mass STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 351 PHILADELPHIA,l).8.A. _ igt J. G. BRILL COMPANY A Talc of Two Cities A traveler for our Supply Department said the other day that the Oswego Traction peopletold him that they had run our 21-E truck for nine years without the change of a singlebearing. At Butler (Pa.) he heard much the same story, except that they have had the trucksa shorter time—four years. Nothing to do but oil the boxes every six months—the bearingsand everything else are just the same as when the trucks were new. That is because the solidforged side frames, with their diagonal cross-braces, are always square, and keep every partexactly where it ought to be. The journal-boxes deserve part of the merit, as far as thebearings are concerned, for they are dust-proof—made so by a patented method that is won-
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BRILL 21=E TRUCK (Patented) derfully effective. With boxes that keep the dust out and frames that never get out of squareand cant crystallize and break, there is no reason why the truck shouldnt run long, andalways run smoothly. The arrangement of the springs gives an easy, steady movement to thecar—quite different from the ordinary single truck, that bounces like a small boat in a galeand pounds the rail-joints apart. In Great Britain the is used almost universally, as they need a specially steady truck under their heavy and high double-deckers—one that hasframes that wont sag at the ends. Our truck carries the car two inches lower than any other—a particularly good point, since single trucks are mostly used in city service, where carsshould be carried as low as possible. Notice the four pairs of large diameter coil-springs atthe sides of the journal-boxes. They furnish a low, easy support for the frame and keep theboxes upright and working freely in the jaws. SPRI/NGS—We hav

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