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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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ease of its working force, found it advisableto purchase not only the entire Power Building, but also all thebuildings contained on the large triangular plot of ground boundedby .Allegheny .Ave. on the north, the Pennsylvania R. R. on thewest, and the Philadelphia & Reading Ry. on tlie east. This entireplant which the company now owns consists of the main buildingand twenty separate structures devoted to the different processesof storage battery manufacture. The accompanying illustration gives a general view of the worksfrom the western and southern sides. The executive oflices. andthe oflice of the .sales department are located on the seventli floorof the main building, and the offices of the engineering, construction,operating, accounting, purchasing, order and superintendents de-■ partments occupy the front portion of the central pavilion on thefloors beneath. In the auxiliary buildings on the ground floor arelocated the lumber sheds, the stnck mom for pig lend and alloy, the
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ST.\Fl- Ol- KI.KCTRIC STORAGE B.\TTERV CO Gtsellschaft, Germany, and the Societe .Anonyme pour le TravailElectrique des Metaux, France, which secured to the ElectricStorage Battery Co. the control of these companies patents for theUnited States, and the benefit of all future improvements made bythem. By means of periodical conferences between its own engi-neers and those of the foreign companies, the Electric Storage Bat-tery Company keeps in close touch with every advance made in theart. In 1902 the company acquired a controlling interest in theChloride Electrical Storage Syndicate, Ltd. of England. The successful operation of the plants installed for lighting andpower and railway work created a demand for .storage batteries inexcess of the capacity of the Gloucester factory, so that in 1894 the lead foundry and lead rolling mill and other machinery and appara-tus for the manufacture of the various types of battery plates; alsothe extensive forming rooms where the electro-chemical fo

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