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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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s toward all gettingdown to business in the matter of fire prevention and doingour united best to stamp the great curse of conflagration outof modern industrial life. Observer. ♦♦♦ WHEEL GUARDS IN EUROPE Boston, May 13, 1904. Editors Street Railway Journal: Since you published an illustrated account in the issue ofAug. 15, 1903. of the fender used in Liverpool, another yearsrecords are available with interesting results ; for, in the three years now since its introduction, no person has ever been runover by cars equipped with it, though 132 persons have beenactually under the cars. All of these people were pushed offthe track clear of the wheels, owing to the plow-shape of the fender, only 20 per cent requiring medical assistance. Besidesthe tendency to reduce the extent and the cost of accidents thereare no waits for a wrecking wagon to come and jack up a car.As the fender pushes snow off the track as well as people, atrial in this country would be interesting for more than one
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DOUBLE-DECK CAR IN LIVERPOOL, SHOWING WHEEL GUARD reason. Since in Liverpool some snow was found to collectin the rear half of the plow, the rear nose can now be kept liftedup by a chain from the platform above, leaving a free openingfor any snow to pass through. The plow-shaped wheel guard may be found in this country,but it is more common in Europe, especially Paris. In noplace, however, have the details been so perfected as in Liver-pool, where the great length of the plows, the bluntness of therubber-covered ends, the attachment of the guard to the axleboxes, thus keeping the belting at the bottom always at the sameheight above the tracks, all contribute to the success of the de-vice. While the prefect of police in Paris announced last yearas conditions for fenders that they must not project beyond theplatforms, and must be capable of being lowered on to the trackeither by the motorman or automatically, on the principleadopted in Marseilles and Munich, the Tramways Union ofFrance

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