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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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aries and other wages 0122 Damage, losses and gratuities 0001 Insurance 0066 General expenses 0173 Transportation 0088 Maintenance 0117 Total expenses per car mile 1666 Earnings per car mile 2730 GENERAL ELECTRIC - WESTINGHOUSEAGREEMENT. The long talked of agreement between the GeneralElectric and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturino-Companies in regard to the joint use of certain disputedpatents was brought to a successful issue last month andwas announced March 12. This puts an end to theexpensive litigation which the companies have beencarrying on against each other for several years. Bothhad very strong positions in regard to fundamentalpatents, and it was recognized that both would be thegainers by coming to a peaceful agreement. Eachcompany is now licensed to use the patents of the otherexcept a few that are excluded. The patents are to bemanaged by a board of control of five members, twoappointed by each company, and the fifth by the four soappointed. 228 (^txkiilyaAyjayj^
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SHOIS AND INCLINE TCI STRUCTURE—LAKE STREET ELEVATED. LAKE STREET ELEVATED MOTOR CARSAND SHOPS. The work of electrically equipping the Lake StreetElevated Railroad of this city, is progressing rapidly.The third rail and feeders are nearly all laid (plans ofwhich were shown in the March Review) and the motorcars and car shops are practically completed. The carshops are something of a novelty for an elevated road,as they are situated on the surface and are reached b)-an incline 550 feet long, having a 2.75 per cent grade.The arrangement of shops and incline with referenceto the structure is shown in one of the accompanyingengravings. The motor cars are rebuilt steam passenger coaches,used before on the road. They are mounted onMcGuire elevated motor trucks. The work of put-ting the motormans cab in the front riirht hand corner of each was done in the Wells and Frenchcar building shops. No material change was madein the under frame of the car. The motor equip-

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