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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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ns.; width over thesills, 6 ft. 3 ins., and over the posts at the seat ends, 7 ft. J4 in.;sweep of the posts, 5 ins. The side sills are 3^ ins. x 7 ins., April i, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 619 plated by 7-in. x j/-in. steel, and the end sills are 2^ ins. xII ins. The round-corner seat-end panels, angle-iron bumpers,brake handles, platform and signal bells and radial draw-barsare all of Brill manufacture. ♦♦♦ THE BOSTON ELEVATED OPERATES FIVE-CAR TRAINS ENGLISH ALTERNATORS FOR LONDON COUNTY COUNCILTRAMWAYS The extensive plans for additional mileage which the LondonCounty Council has under way, and which have been describedin these columns, have called for important extensions to itspower generating equipment and have led to the placing oflarge orders for engines and generators. One of the latter hasrecently been completed at the works of the Electric Construc-tion Company, Ltd., of London and Wolverhampton, and isillustrated in the accompanying engraving. An idea of the size
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FRAME OF ONE OF THE 3200-K. V. A. GENERATOKS FOR THE L( )ND(.»NCOUNTY COUNCIL TRAMWAYS of the machine can be had by comparing the view of the iieldframe with that of the man standing in the foreground. The contract given to this company includes four three-phase25-cycle generators, each designed to give a continuous outputof 3200 K. V. A. at a speed of 94 r. p. m. This output is to berated with a power factor of 94 per cent. The working pres-sure is 6600 volts and the current per phase is 280 amps. Themachines will be called upon to give an overload of 25 per centfor two hours continuously. The field magnets are placeddirectly on the rim of the engine fly-wheel, the stored energyof which equals 11,000 ft. tons at normal speed. This com-pany is also constructing the complete fly-wheel. The Boston Elevated Railway Company began the operationof five-car trains on its elevated division during the rush hoursof March 22. The first train left the terminal at Dudley Streetat 4 p. m., and the

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