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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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ake on each axle.This is the equipment used in the high speed work in the Cleveland& Lorain road. To accommodate both motor and brake on the sameaxle the wheels are dished. The equipment was controlled by a B-8controller. A diamond truck also carried two G. E. 57 motors,without brake equipment. On a Peckham flexible cantilever truckwere mounted two G. E. 52 57-h. p. motors with K-io controller. Allthese equipments were arranged to show the operation of bothmotor and brakes. The equipments of the two McGuire trucks werecontrolled by one controller, and were run either singly or bothtogether. On each of the above equipments was set a Thomsonrecording car meter for use on the car itself, serving to show how acheck may be placed on the performances of the motorman with thecontroller. In the exhibit of the Barney & Smith Car Company,two G. E. 1,000 motors were mounted upon a pair-of class H trucks.In the Peckham Truck & Wheel Companys exhibit two G. ,E.52 ^t(fid%ilu4n^vlc\v* 91
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motors were mounted on a cantilever truck. The Duplex Companyscar running on the city tracks was also equipped with G. IC. apparatus.Armature construction was exemplified by two completed G. E. 52armatures, a full set of motor mica insulations, a series of armaturecoils ready for application to the core, and a number of field coils;also several complete sets of motor commutators bound and headedfor shipment. The gear work was well represented, all gears andpinions shown coming from the gear plant of the General KlectricCompany. Three boards were erected in the exhibit space on whichwere mounted circuit breakers, switches, lightning arresters, meters,etc. The illumination was very elaborate; among the signs was onegiving the railway record of the company: 2,137 generators, aggregat-ing 512,213 h. p., 46,ic)i motors, aggregating 1,059,060 h. p. and 40,000series-parallel controllers. The writing room of the Internationalwas handsomely decorated and served as headquarters; in a smallbooth

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