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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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XXX. Xo. if>. AN UNDERHUNG INSULATOR NEW STYLE OF VESTIBULE The Locke Insulator Manufacturing Company of Victor,N. Y., is now making a suspension type insulator which issometimes called the underhung insulator. It consists es-sentially of several unit insulators of moderate size at-tached mechanicallyso as to form astring of insulatingunits of great me-chanical and electri-cal strength. Its mainadvantage lies inthe fact that it per-mits indefinite ex-pansion by the addi-tion of units, and asthe distance betweenthe transmission linewire and the earthis very great, staticstrains are reducedto a minim u m,whereas in the or-dinary pin type ofinsulator there isconsiderable staticstrain between theline wire and sup-port, due to the factthat they are ordi-narily not more thanthree inches apart.As its name signi-fies, the suspendedinsulator depends from the under side of the cross arm.or structural steel support. The method of application isclearly shown in the accompanying illustrations.
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THE UNDERHUNG INSULATOR-CLOSE VIEW ACCELERATING PASSENGER MOVEMENT The accompanying cut is a reproduction of a io-in. x 18-in. poster printed in red, which is placed in the open carsof the Kingston Consolidated Railroad Company. It will ITS UP TO THE PASSENGERS TO KEEP THIS CAR ON SCHEDULE TIME. MOVE QUICKLY WHEN GETTING ON AND OFF BUT AL-WAYS WAIT UNTIL THE CAR STOPS. DONT MAKE PEOPLE CLIMB OVER YOUR KNEES TO GETABOARD, BUT MOVE OVER TO THE CENTER AND LEAVETHE ENDS CLEAR. FIVE TO A SEAT. DONT BLAME THE COMPANY WHEN TIME IS LOST IF THESESUGGESTIONS HAVE NOT BEEN FOLLOWED. KINGSTON CONSOLIDATED R. R. CO. KINGSTON CAR POSTER be seen from the text that the responsibility of passengersin helping to keep the cars to schedule is brought out in nouncertain way, and a special attention is given to the endseat hog. C. Gordon Reel, general manager of the com-pany, states that these posters have proven very effectivein making the passengers realize how much they really areconcerned in making the

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