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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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s are attachedconnecting with the brake beams. Sprocket wheels areplaced at the center of the screws and are connected withcorresponding wheels hung to the car by chain belts, thewheels having a shaft connection geared to the operating A STREET car horse is now on the Street Rail-w^AY Review. Our scribe in a moment of excite-ment said in the October number that Gould &Watson had sold 10,850 mica insulators within thepast six weeks. Now the fact was that the Bostonhouse of this big firm, has sold that number zvithin tendays. We take pains to correct the statement and addthat the sales within the past month have been full) upto these figures. The Gould & Watson people have also put on themarket a device in the way of a pull-over, witJi doubleinsulation. The advantages of it are these: It givesdouble insulation and the brace comes from a longerleverage and consequently the strain is more distrib-uted. The advantage of this is so evident that no furtherverbal comment is necessary.
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POOLE Si BEALS screw SAFETY CAR BRAKE. rod, by the working of which the springs are spread anda perfect equality of pressure is obtained upon all thewheels. Either end is worked independent of the other,or both together if need be, the proper application of thebrake not only doing away with flat wheels, but overcom-ing the momentum of the car in the shortest possibletime. This device is designed to be simple, durable andinexpensive, and when once adjusted will remain in positionuntil the shoes are worn out, requiring no pawl or rachetto hold it. It can be set at a certain pressure on a downgrade, and will so remain without any attention of themotorman, and the power can be applied to or taken offthe car by the same handl-^ and at the same time that thebrake is operated, but little power being required to dothe work. It is expected that a test of this brake will soon bemade on the tracks of the West End Road. A recent application also is the globe strain insulater, in two sizes. One is

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