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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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ELEVATION OF SPRING SUSPENSION. The weight of the car and its load, up to fifty passengers,is taken by the spiral springs. Beyond that point thespirals are inactive, and the leaf springs take the load.But twenty-four bolts are used, all of them ^-inch. Thecar body is held by four bolts. Another desirable featureis that the body is only twenty-three inches fiom theground. The Graham people are using a 5-inch steel Ibeam for trucks to go under open cars, and extending the
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GRAHAMS DIVIDEND EARNER. sion. Another feature is the long stroke, 7>^ inches, bymeans of which the quick and indistinguishable jangle offour or five fares at once is avoided, and each fare rungup distinctly and slowly. This also prevents passengers frame out from twelve to eighteen feet, as required, giv-ing the sill a rigid support. The 5-inch steel I beam issupported by a special brace of 3-inch channel steel, mak-ing a cantilever truss for the sills. (;• ^(/Lecty\aiWayj\eyic\/ DISASTEROUS CONFLAGRATION ATATTLEBORO, MASS.

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