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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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uses snow rollers to pack and smooth the snow asit falls, and the above suggestion is based on the rollersused by the city. tet%ii»#^9^»^*^ 597- THE CANTON POLE. SirPERIXTENDENT A. G. DAVIDS of the Can-ton, O., Street Railway Company, is the inventorof a new pattern of poles for trolley and cross-wires of electric railways, and for electric light wires. The poles are entirely of iron and aim to unite thegreatest strength with the least weight. The three stylesof poles are shown herewith. any position. Its diameter is 5 inches at the base and 3inches at the top. The double wrought iron bracket asshown on the right-hand pole weighs 33 pounds. Thesocket fittings weigh about 20 pounds. The horizontalbar is a small 2-foot-2 j^-inch channel bar. Altogetherthe new pole promises well, and the Wrought IronBridge Company of Canton, which has undertaken themanagement of it, have well-founded hopes of success.Superintendent Davids was one of the earliest railway
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SIDE, SINGLE AND DOUBLE BRACKET POLE. WROUGHT IRON BRIDGE COMPANY, CANTON, OHIO. The side pole, to the left in the engraving, has beentested by a pulling strain of 2,800 pounds, by a line fromthe top of the pole running off 90 feet at an angle toa fixed post. No perceptible spring was caused. Thetotal weight of the 30-foot pole complete is 460 pounds.The pole is, naturally, easy to paint and can be placed in electricians having been superintendent ofj an electricrailway ever since the construction of the Richmondroad, where he was in charge from the first. He hasmade a careful observing study of equipment, and hisnew poles are the result. They are highly complimentedby all who have seen them. 598 W. G. ELLIS & SONS, THE rugged, intelligent face of W. G. Ellis adorns thepages of the Street Railway Review in thisissue. The Scotch race has produced numbers ofmen who are main-stays of their adopted country- and W.G. Ellis is no exception to his class. At an earty age Mr. Ellis left th

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