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Identifier: factoryindustria35newy (find matches)
Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the level of the top of docks, two incline-cable hoisting-engines are employed to elevate the loaded cars. A boiler plant fur-nishes steam for the operation of the hoisting engines, for thawingsheds, and for general heating purposes. The difficulties which thecompany has had in the past on account of the freezing of the wetcoal led the management to construct a series of frame sheds with justsufficient inside clearance to receive the largest cars. These are linedwith tar paper and sheathed, and have a set of 4-inch steam coilsplaced on the floor between the rails. The plan is experimental, butit is hoped it will prove effective for the work required of it. The Guttenberg plant of the New York, Ontario & Western con-sists of two piers which carry a 1,500-ton storage for a Manhattandealer, for team deliveries, the balance of the piers being constructedwith hoppers and side chutes in the usual manner. The approachgrades are light, allowing the use of yard engines, thus obviating 893
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894 COAL HANDLING AT NPAV YORK. 89s

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