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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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hich covers the entiremachine thoroughly protects it from mud and water,and being hinged, an opening from the undersidepermits of ready access to the motor by running thecar over a pit. The casing has an opening on theupper side for the purpose of ventilation. When it■^ is desired to make repairs to the motor the car bodycan be jacked up, when the armature field magnetand the wheels can be easily rolled out. This obviatesthe necessity of taking the motor to pieces and can all bedone by one man. The noise caused bj the contact ofthe brushes with the commutator is greatly lessened bj-the slow speed, and as both commutator and brushes aresecurely cased they cannot bi injured or tlieir efficiency 127 impairtd h\ w atiT or mud. Ilu- wi-i^ht of llio niolor isis t:()iiie\vhal loss than 2.000 pounds. li\LT\ jiossibk partwliich cf)uld be eliminated has been doiu- away with,resultin<f not onl\- in an increased ethfiency, especiallyundei- normal loads, but in a lessened cost of maintenance.
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The car starts without jerk and mo\es off easily andquieth. The casing is hung so as to clear high cross-ings and ordinar\- obstructions on the street, and the new-Short Gearless mav fairly be said to liave already enteredupon a long and useful future. are in I^incoln, Nebraska, and is olhcered with Cj. W.Enslow. prisident: (j. W. Hartman, secrttar\ andtreasurer, and F. J. Pearson as general manager andelectrician. The comiiaiu have the contract for furnishing all theecjuipment, and buildingthe power car houses, andfurnishing and installingthe entire plant for theelectric road at Heatriee,Nebraska. Thev are also westernagents for the Baxter Mf)-tor Co., of Baltimore, andwill use that motor inequipping the Beatriceroad, in which no expensewill be spared in an\respect to make it tirstclass in e\erN- wa\. Contracts for this roadare now being let. and llu-work will be crowded tothe utmost, and will, w henfinished, be a source of great pride to the enterprisingcitizens of that energetic yo

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