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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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e automatic accelerator into play, which closes theswitches of the turret controller in their right order unless checkedl)y what is termed the limit switch; and the fifth, opening all thepneumatic switches that have been closed and sinuiltaneouslythrowing in others, connects the motors in the first parallel stagewith resistance in circuit. An overload and no-voltage return relay is in electrical connec-tion with the actuating magnet of one of the pneumatic cylindersof the turret controller which operates the main circuit breakerIo prevent damage from a resumption of supply after any interrup-tion such as a break in the third rail or persistent bad contact in thecollecting shoes, the no-voltage part of this device returns the con-troller to a position in which some considerable amount of resist-anse is in circuit, allowing it to be gradually and automatically cutout when the current comes on again. Sudden interruptions andresumption of supply such as occur when the collectors pass over
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COLLECTING GE.AR ON MOTOR CARS. great-precaution against fire. The method is illustrated in one ofthe engravings which shows some of the cables laid in asbestosgrooves, filled in with a fireproof composition and covered withsheet asbestos. The interiors of the superior class non-smoking cars are uphol-stered in art green moquette, and the smoking cars are similar in allrespects except that the upholstery is in green leather. All thesecond-class cars have buffalo hide covered seats, and only differfrom the first-class in that the decorations are less elaborate. Slidingdoors are fitted at the ends of the cars, and patent swing gates areplaced on the platform.*. .^11 the rolling stock has been built at Birmingham and Man-chester by the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage &Wagon Co., Ltd., under the immediate supervision of the railwaycompanys carriage and wagon superintendent, and the entire elec-trical equipment has been designed and installed by the British West-inghouse Co.

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