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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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ely confined to the produc-tion of lighting apparatus. The plant consists of twoimmense main buildings, around which are grouped themachine shops, foundries and blacksmith, cabinet andpaint shops. The equipment and arrangement of thisfactory is perfect and the facilities for turning out large an important place in a city noted for the magnificenceand number of its great industries. These associatedinterests are as follows: Westinghouse Air Brake Com-pany, manufacturers of the Westinghouse automatic brake;the Philadelphia Company, suppliers of natural gas; theUnion Switch & Signal Company, manufacturers of rail-way switching and signaling appliances; Westinghouse 507 Machine Company, manufacturers of high speed steamengines; the Standard Underground Cable Company,manufacturers of insulated wires and cables; the StandardCar Heating & Ventilating Company, manufacturers ofheating and ventilating apparatus for railway cars; theFuel Gas & Manufacturing Company, Limited, manufac-
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turers of fuel gas and regulatingappliances for use with thesame. In addition to these, there are :The United States ElectricLighting Company, having itsfactories at Newark, N. J., andthe Sa\v3er-Man Electric Com-pany, with its factory located inNew York City, both of whichcompanies are leased and ope-rated by the WestinghouseElectric & Manufacturing Company. During the convention a special railway exhibit ofgenerators and motors was provided on the first floor ofthe factory and included the several types of motors made.Here side by side were three street car trucks blockedup to allow free motion of the wheels. A friction brakeapplied to one wheel of each truck was fitted with aspring balance, which indicated the pull on the brake.The motors were started and the brakes adjusted untileach motor took exactly the same current. The pulls onthe spring balances were then noted and found to be asfollows: Double Reduction - - - - 78 lbs. Single Reduction - - - - 88 Gearless - - - - - no A

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