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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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is fittedwith a retainer spring which engages with the fiat faces oftlic square-end lugs, thus providing an effective locking mech-anism. The truck is designed for the nose suspension system ofmounting the motors, for which there are case-hardenedwearing plates upon the upper flanges of the transoms tocarry the motor lug. These wearing plates are held in placebv the loop bars passing over the motor lugs, the bolts ofwhich fasten both the loop and the hardened plate. Themotor and gear-case clearances are indicated in outline in theaccompanying drawings. A feature of the motor-gear c()uip-ment is that each axle gear is cut from a ring of forged steelinstead of the usual cast-steel ring. This results in a homo-geneous structure throughout the ring, and will thus obviatethe tendency to uneven wear, which has been experiencedwith solid cast-steel gears. These gear rings are mounted The Frank Ridlon Company, of Boston, has just placedanother railway specialty on the market in the form of a
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HANGER WRENCH AND ITS APPLICATION forged wrench designed for cap and cone hanger. It isclaimed that by using this wrench, a hanger can be installedin about a minute. The accompanying cuts demonstrate theefficient action of this tool. The hanger is laid in the jaws ofthe wrench, the wire passing under the hook of thewrench and also over the right hand hook of the hanger,then passing around the back of the hanger, as shown by thesolid lines in the lower cut; the handle of the wrench is thenpulled to the left, which allows the span wire to be readilyplaced under the left-hand hook of the hanger, which com-pletes the operation, as shown by the dotted lines in lower cut. ^^^ RESULTS OF A TRACKLESS TROLLEY TRIAL IN GERMANY The conclusion of a series of experiments with a tracklesstrolley system at Eberswalde, Germany, has released for pub-lication some instructive data. It was found that theaverage consumption of power, including transmission losses,was 660 watts per omnibus-kilometer. The

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