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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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k after striking the gong, producing a clear musicalnote. Track scrapers have been made of almost every conceivableform, but the Littell scraper, as shown at the Brill exhibit, iscertainly the simplest. It is put in operation by a mere toucnof the motormans foot and it is said that more than once, incase of a person falling upon the track, it has been dropped so(;uickly as to prevent the body from coins under the wheels.The company was represented by John A. Brill. Samuel M.turwen. W, H Heulings. Jr.. George M. Haskell, G. S. Hastingsand Walter S. Adams. The most unique and conspicuous feature at the convention wasthe great globe of the General Electric Company, which servedto exhibit in a graphical manner the world wide use of machinesand instruments of its manufacture. It was 25 ft. 2 in. in diam-eter, with a scale of 312 miles to 1 ft. and was mounted on a ped-estal IC ft. in diameter. The globe was built up of papier niacneupon a frame work of wood, and no less than 2.700 sq. yds.
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CAR AND TRUCKS IN THE BRILL EXHIBIT. wheel base of -4 ft. and also enabling the car body to be broughtvery low. Quarter size brass models of the Eureka. Perfectand Ideal trucks were exhibited in parlor G. Hotel Brunswick,and were much admired by all visitors. Among other noveltiesround end seat-panels were shown. These are especially strong,as they are easily and accurately fitted and have become verypopular with street railway men and car patrons. Dunningsdraw bar is a simple mechanism which by means of a pocket atthe rear and a latch controlled by a rod at the front end of tnocar. enables the draw head to be thrust back so as to have thewhole front or butter of the car clear without a projection be-yond it. The Milieu sign, an invention of Thomas Millen, generalniaster mechanic of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company,New York, is both simple and ingenious. The idea is to providesimple means for operating box signs from the inside of the caror from beneath the hood. It consists of

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