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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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th of both the electric lighting and the electric railway indus-tries, particularly in New England and the Eastern States. Thebusiness is unique in many respects. In 1891 Mr. Ridlon, whoas a representative of the Brush company, had for several yearsprior to this time, been engaged in installing electric-lighting ing: Gears, pinions and trolleys made by the R. D. Nuttall Co.,of Pittsburg; registers of the International Register Co., of Chi-cago; drop-forged segments of the Van Wagoner & WilliamsHardware Co., of Cleveland; supplies of the Electric RailwayEquipment Co., of Cincinnati; the Protected Rail Bond Co., ofPhiladelphia; the Chicago Mica Co., of Valparaiso, Ind.; the SpeerCarbon Co., of St. Marys, Pa.; the American Electric HeatingCorporation, of Cambridgeport, Mass.; the Garton-Daniels Co., ofKeokuk, la.; and the Steel HoUoware Co., of Pittsburg; the Wil-son trolley pole catcher; and the Kilbourn track-sanding device.The repair shop is probably the largest of its kind in New
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AR.MATURE WINDING ROOM-FRANK RIDLON machinery in the East, conceived the idea that the rapid develop-ments which were even then being made in electrical researchwould soon make possible the establishment of a business devotedto the buying and selling of slightly worn electrical machinery,discarded for larger units, or made obsolete by improved designs.He accordingly took advantage of an opportunity that soon afterpresented itself and purchased a small repair shop in Boston, wherehe at once set about buying all the second-hand generators andmotors he could secure, making such repairs as were necessaryand selling them again at prices that created a ready demand.The business grew at a rapid rate and in 1894, Mr. Ridlon as-

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