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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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n.ARKSON ifi-rASSENGER STHAM MOTOR OMNllll S, addition to single-deck omnibnscs, Messrs. Clarkson have builtdouble-deck buses, to carry 32 passengers, for the London RoadCar Co., equipped with 32-h. p. engines, and has supplied a 32-h. p.car lo the London & Southwestern Railway Co. for use as a feeder,to carry 18 passengers with 1,(150 lb. of luggage. ■•--¥■ ■ ■ Cement and Concrete Mixing. In the interest of its product, the revolving cube concrete mixer,the Municipal Engineering & Contracting Co., 607 Railway Ex-change, Chicago, has recently issued a pamphlet of some 30 pagescontaining instructions to .igents, a description of its mixer andother data regarding cement and concrete. The instructions toagents do not, as one might infer frolii the title, tell a man how toapproach and secure a customer, but comprise useful and valuableinformation regarding cement and concrete. With the object in view of equipping its agents with a knowledgeof the properties and uses of

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