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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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DIAGR.\M OF OPERATIVE DKTAILS. DAVIS TURBINE RELIEF VALVE. by the interlocking rock arm, slide freely through their guides asthe box is crowded over. It should be noted that while the dump-ing action is assisted by gravity, it does not depend upon that forceThe hooks, as previously stated, engage the studs upon the trackcastings and arrest the horizontal side movement, at which point ditions to vacuum, as it does away with the necessity of two valvesand the e.xtra amount of piping that is often necessary to arrangefor running an engine condensing at one time and non-condensingor under back pressure at another time, the G. M. Davis RegulatorCo., 144 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, has placed upon the market a
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*THE KING-LAWSON DUMP CAR—VARIOUS POSITIONS. all of the force exerted by the cylinders is converted into an over-turning movement. One of the most noticeable features of this caris its ability to dump the load away from the track and outside theclearance limit of rolling stock. In the recent operations of this car60,000 lb. of pig iron and car-wheel scrap was dumped in 30 seconds.and a load of 50,000 lb. of water-soaked clay was dumped in 15seconds. Orders for Wheeler Seats. The Heywood Brothers & Wakefield Co., of Wakefield, Mass.,has recently been awarded the contract for the seats to be used in■ the sample car which the Boston Elevated Ry. is constructing foruse in the tunnel connecting Boston proper with East Boston. Thiscar is of fire proof construction throughout and the woodwork ofthe seats will be treated so as to make it uninflammable. Theseats will be of the well known Wheeler type and will have slatcushions and backs, with the Wakefield patented grip-handle. Therewi

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