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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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must beaccommodated with the best style of cars, and everypossible comfort. If these are provided, no branch ofthe street car business will give such remunerativereturns. I conclude with the suggestion that the street railwayact should be amended so as to permit the carriage of 48 <p)ji^\f(aAi^^J^ country freight, farm and dairy produce, and, if legallypossible, the right to grant franchise for a longer termthan thirty years should be added. That term is entirelytoo short to secure the capital necessary for the properdevelopment of such enterprises. With legislativeencouragement I think capital can be interested in thebuilding of electric railways along country highways ona scale far exceeding anything yet attempted. There isan enormous business which railroads are unable to do,or have refused to do, which can be profitably done bythe suburban electric railway. LACONIA SWIVEL TRUCK. The accompanying drawings are of the Laconia CarCompanys new swivel truck for double truck cars. The
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PLAN OF LACONIA SWIVEL TRUCK. Strong point of the truck is its simplicity and consequentstrength. This, of course, means economical mainten-ance. All parts are interchangeable, and hot Norwayiron rivets are used throughout in its construction. The facilities en-joyed by the companyfor the manufacture ofiron trucks are excel-lent. The malleableiron mill is one of themost complete in NewEngland, and makescastings for the WestEnd Street RailwayCompany, the Gene- ral Electric Company, and many others. The annualcapacity of the electric department is i,ooo trucks.That of the car-wheel works is 15,000 wheels. The Laconia Car Company was founded in 1850, andpursued the even tenor of its way until June, 1894, whenthe new street-car department was entirely destroyed byfire. The burnt shops were at once rebuilt on a largerscale, according to plans dictated by the experience ofnearly fifty years. Besides being one of the busiest,Laconia is one of the most picturesque of the numerousmanufacturing

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