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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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nt Contracting Co., Philadelphia, Pais introducing in a number of amusement parks. The machine consists of four steel arms which radiate from a cen-tral revolving table at an angle of about 450 with the horizontal,each arm carrying a cab accommodating four passengers. The bestmaterials are used in the construction of this device and the me-chanical parts are very simple. The steel arms carrying the cabsare made sufficiently strong to carry many times the load placedupon them. The cabs are of ornamental design and finished in panelwork. An electric motor of about seven horse powei capacitj fur-nishes the motive power. The plant occupii - a -pice 50 ft. in diame-ter, enclosed by a circular fence. The four cabs make 20 trips per hour and with a five-cent fareand four passengers to a cab, the machine has an earning capacityof $16 per hour. The expense of maintenance and operation isabout 57 cents per hour. A ticket seller and two attendants are allthat are required to operate the machine.
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122 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW (Vol. XVI, No. -• The Circle Swing for Parks. Among the numerous amusement devices operated in the variouspleasure resorts of the country few enjoy wider popularity andgive greater satisfaction than the Circle Swing Flying Machine,or airships, as they are generally called. The chief attractionof these devices is the pleasant effect produced by the rapid motionthrough the air. A very attractive type of this apparatus, which weillustrate herewith, is placed upon the market by the Traver CircleSwing Co., New York City It was first brought out in the seasonof 1903, and since that time sixty-eight have been built in many ofthe principal resorts of the country. The cars are suspended, as shown, from strongly supported armsat the top of the tower by /i-m. steel cables. These arms areattached to a solid steel shaft which runs to the base of the swingwhere the bottom of it turns in a step bearing. The structure issteel throughout and a factor of safety of 20 was mai

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