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Identifier: streetrailwayj251905newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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HOSE COUPLING WITH REIN-FORCING FLEXIBLE BUSHING ONE OF THE TEN DOUBLE-VESTIBULE CARS FOR THE NEW YORK & LONGISLAND TRACTION COMPANY tube, SO that no part of the rubber is exposed, even on a bend.Not only is the hose thus thoroughly protected from outsideinjury, but the steel wrapper binds the rubber so tightly that itprevents expansion, and thereby lessens the strain on the hosefrom the pressure within. The durability is consequentlygreatly increased. The reliability of flexible steel-armoredhose, however, is a vital consideration. It is said to be abso- bolster, thereby relieving the car body of much of the strain. The length over the end panels is 30 ft. 8 ins., and over thecrown pieces and the vestibules 40 ft. 8 ins. The width overthe sills is 8 ft. 2^ ins., and over the posts at the belt 8 ft. 6 in>s.The sweep of the posts is ins. The distance between thecenters of the posts is 2 ft. 8 ins. The side sill size is 4 ins. x7^ ins., and the end sill size 5^2 ins. x 6% ins. Ju

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