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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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ngraving, it is a side-dump car, there beingfour swinging doors on either side for dumping. The company idea of the completeness withwhich these reports are keptcan be obtained from page255, which gives a reproduc-tion of the headings of theblanks used in the distributionof material and distributionof labor items. STOREKEEPING RECORDS The storekeeper is allowedto issue material on requisi-tion only, and the practiceemployed is as follows: If the material is in stock,the repair man is obliged tofill out a requisition for thegoods required, and the jobfor which it is needed, andthis requisition is signed bythe foreman and sent to thestorekeeper. If the materialis not kept in stock a sepa-rate form of requisition isused. The storekeeper is notthe purchasing agent, but the purchases are made by the generalmanager upon requisition by the storekeeper, who specifies notonly the apparatus desired, but the quantity desired, its destina-tion and the price last paid. When the goods are ordered a
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CINDER CAR OF ST. LOUIS TRANSIT COMPANY now sells all of its ashes not required in its own construction ata price which more than pays for the handling, instead of hav-ing their handling a dead loss, as formerly. Much is used in making concrete for various purposes, August 22, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 259 THE INTERURBAN SYSTEM OF THE SOUTH LANCASHIRETRAMWAYS Although city electric railway construction has progressedso rapidly in Great Britain during the past ten years that prac-tically every large city has its tramway system, the develop-ment of interurban railroads in that country has been greatlyretarded from a number of causes ever since the general intro-duction of electric power for transportation service in thatcountry. The principal factors which have held back inter-urban electric railway construction in Great Britain have beenfully set forth in the two articles which have appeared in thelast two issues of this paper, written by Hon. Robert P. Porter.Mr. Porter, however,

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