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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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CAR THAT STOOD WITHIN A FOOT OF DAMAGED CAR steamer connections, so that pressure from fire engines couldbe turned into the system if necessary. The piping in the rooffollowed the General Fire Extinguisher Companys usual prac-tice, the sprinkler heads being placed in rows 7 ft. apart andstaggered so as to distribute the spray. The sprinklers betweenthe cars, which was the new feature of the system, were sus-pended from pipes leading from the roof, and were level withthe center of the car windows. The sprinkler heads in bothcases were the standard Grinnell type, which have been used bythe company for a number of years. The valve in the head isheld in place by a central column, which is soldered with a softmetal, fusible at any predetermined degree of heat. In thiscase they were set for about 150 degs. The water as it is re-
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1NTERIOR OF FIRST CAR AFTER FI RE. FIRE STARTED UNDER SEAT leased strikes an umbrella-shaped head, provided with serra-lions, so that the water is diverted in a heavy spray over aradius of about 16 ft. Thirteen obsolete single-truck cars wereplaced in the bouse as closely together as possible. The ex-periments were conducted by employees of the Cleveland Elec-tric Railway, under the direct supervision of President An-drews, Secretary Davies, Chief Engineer Cook and others.Two fire steamers bad lines connected with the sprinkler sys- tem, and other lines of hose were laid ready for an emergency. In the first test the fire was started in car No. 200, locatedexactly in the center of the house, and in a manner similar tothat in which fires usually originate in cars, viz: by means of ashort-circuit. Two arc light carbons were connected to themotor circuit, and a piece of fuse wire was placed between thetwo carbons, which were about an inch apart. The carbons

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