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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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pany has also furnished coalhandling machinery to the Kent Avenue station in Brooklyn; thenew central station of the Manhattan Elevated Ry.; and otherlarge power stations in Greater New York. The plants includeseveral different types of apparatus, comprising two-man towerswith hoisting drums, actuated by steam and electricity; one-mantow er with electrically operated drums; and mast and gaff appa-latns for erection on wharfs and floats. THE B. F. STURTEVANT CO.. of Boston. Mass., has a localNew York store at 131 Liberty St. In connection with streetrailway work this company is making a specialty of the equipmentof boiler p.ants with fans for mechanical draft; also the fittingout of car barns with the Sturtevant system of heating and ventila-tion and method of rapidly thawing snow and ice from the runninggear and motors, thus much reducing the time a car is out ofservice. The same .system is employed for the heating of officebuildings, shops and the like. The company is also furnishing
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MACHINE SHOP-STERLING-MEAKER CO. and large competition but lias fully sustained its high reputationas a quick, powerful and safe brake, and its use is constantly ex-tending. The companys output of tliese brakes this year willconsiderably exceed that of any previous year. The factory facili-ties for their manufacture have been greatly extended and thesame care as to material and work is strictly maintained in its latestproducts. Specimens of the companys manufacture will be exhib-ited at Madison Square Garden convention and the Sterling-MeakerCo. extends a cordial invitation to all delegates to pay a visit to itsfactory nearby. THE JOHN A. MEAD MANUFACTURING CO., of 11 Broad-way, Manhattan, has furnished coal and ash handling equipment formany stations in and near New York, Of these installations, theprincipal one is in the Metropolitan Street Ry. station at 96th St.,where Mead apparatus is used for hoisting the coal from vesselsin the river, and conveying it by two lines of McCaslin o

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