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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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car body, giving exceptionally easy results inriding. The other end of the truck is carried by means brakes are arranged on an entirely new plan, giving verymuch greater power than has heretofore been secured forthis purpose. The brake shoes are of a very greatlyimproved form, and can be replaced, when worn, by theremoval of a single key, which can be done with the lossof but a moments time. Removal of wheels when worn is accomplished by thetaking out of a single heavy bolt on either side, a pointthat will commend itself to many. Another feature which we think should not be over-looked, lies in the fact that the whole frame work of thetruck being carried by the springs, additional elasticity isprovided for the motor support over that afforded byother devices for this purpose, which materially assists inrelieving strain in starting and also in reducing amount ofelectrical repairs. The truck is so constructed that the center is leftentirely open for the attachment of the motor, which is
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THE EQUALIZING MOTOR TRUCK. of similar side equalizing bars, one end of these bars beingcushioned against the main side sill of the car, the otherend engaging with a cross equalizer, attached similarlyon the other side, and being cushioned against suitablecarrying bars in the center. As a result, the manufac-turers claim a practical three-point suspension for the carbody; on one end of the truck the car being supported overeach of the wheels, whereas the support on the other endby means of the cross equalizer is carried to the center ofthe car. By -this means all twisting strains are avoidedand the shocks and jars incident to rapid speed are verylargely absorbed and neutrahzed. These points would seem to be of great importance inoperation, and commend themselves to the careful inves-tigation of those of our friends who are engaged in prac-tical charge of these matters. The construction is such that the two ends of the truckpla) freely in a vertical plane, without imparting disagree-ab

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