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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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lylike one of the non-recording type. Whenever he turns his direc-tion plate the totals are automatically printed on the hidden recordstrip. If a conductor leaves his car he first removes the operatinghandle; this as earlier stated automatically prints the totals. Hethen inserts his identification stamp which presents his number onthe record and marks the end of the time that he was in chargeof the car. The new conductor is then given the operating handleand manipulates the register in precisely the same manner as thefirst conductor. By reference to the reproduction of a small portion of the record-ing strip, it will be seen that the totals recorded in the mannerdescribed appear in two columns, this being a record from a double-type register. On the lower portion of the record appear the totalsfor both cash and tickets set off at the top and bottom by a con-ductors identification stamp, No. 10. It will be seen that this con-ductor took the car when the totals for tickets and cash were
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5 4 4 7 0 6 5 3 6 7 0 5 1 5 1 9 7 0 3 1 s 0 4 7 0 1 3 4 8 8 6 0 9 u -1 7 1 (1 9 7 4 5 0 0 96 10 6 1 8 1 4 5 6 6 9 6 4 5 6 6 9 6 1 4 4 1 6 9 4 2 4 2 0 6 9 2 s-« 4 1 2 6 910 0 9 VERTICAL SECTION OF MECHANISM OF THE SECURITY RECORDING REGISTER. IORTION OF RECORD STRIP FROM REGISTER. an inspector who may board a car to check the register andrecord his visit on the paper in the register. There is also printedat the side of the strip an identification number, correspondingto the number of the recording instrument. This latter featureis to asist the auditing department and to show in a clear mannerin what car and instrument each record was made. On many roads it is the usual practice for be starter to try eachregister a number of times to see that it is in good working orderbefore sending a car out on the line. With the new recording regis-ters this inspection is easily done. The starter first inserts hisidentification stamp in one of the several holes in the lower side ofthe case. This act

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