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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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he draught is very light, about one-half the ordinarypull of road vehicles, on account of the new anti-frictionspindle, also an invention of Mr. Dyer. This bearing will enable the managers to evade the law, forbiding suchvehicles on the boulevards, except when a lady is one ofthe occupants. Applications for the position of conductorsare being rapidly filled at the office. One young ladypractically speaks of her desire to collect nickels by stat-ing : I see nothing against the idea of women conductors.We are already in other walks of life and as Mr. Dyerremarks more apt to be honest than men. I much pre-fer such a life to the drudgery of a seamstress wearyexistence. The chief value of the coach will be as a boulevardtraveler and as a feeder to the adjacent street car lines. A factory is planned at Momence, 111., for construction,and the Columbian Coach Company is fully organized,and we may expect soon to see it making regular tripswith ladv conductors, not rack, electric light and all.
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requires little or no oiling, as it is on the ball-bearing planor rather a combination of ball-bearings and loosely fittingsteel rods. The entire coach with a number of passen-gers was run several blocks with a motive power of twosmall boys (gamin C/iiaioonis) or one small pony-power.The vehicle is 18 feet long, 8 feet wide, with a seatingcapacity of over thirtv, and eight feet high from thefloor to the deck. The front wheels run under the bodybeing only 2>^ feet high; the rear wheels are 5>< feetin diameter. The tires are very broad and as no track isrequired, the driver must be able to turn out for othervehicles and around corners. This is possible on accountof the small front wheels; and the fifth wheel arrange-ment also a ball-bearer. The coach will be illuminatedby storage battery light. The crowning effort at the novel and remarkable is thedetermination to have ladv conductors, which it is expected THE STORAGE BATTERY SUIT. ELECTRICIANS have waited with much interestthe

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