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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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ulators. Center-pole construction isusual in suburbs, with suspension from the walls of made are in the commutator. The small pinion is ofaluminium bronze and the larger of mild steel. Verticalspring suspension holds the motor to car frame. Thecontroller is different in form from American practice,but essentially the same, with six contacts. The brakes are ordinary hand-chain brake and a trackbrake, or as it is called in England, a slipper brake.These are found sufficient for all purposes, including theletter of the law. Taken all in all the Marseilles road is perhaps the mostdistinctively modern electric railway in France. We areindebted to London Engineering for our illustrations. France is taking several forward steps in electrictraction. The town of Dijon has given a concession forits electric tramways to a contractor, of Lyons. Themunicipality of Grasse has been asked for an electricrailway franchise by M. Leveque. Mouveaux ^vill havea trolley line on an American franchise basis.
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DETAIL OF MARSAILLES ELECTRIC CAR. houses or from poles in town. The feeder system isdivided into four independent sections. Our drawmg of the car in vogue, shows a four-wheeledrigid 5.9 foot wheel base car. The wheels are 39 inchesdiameter, and the car measures 30 feet over all. Perhapsa flexible wheel base and double truck will be introducedby some enterprising truck manufacturer. The car seats20 people and has room for 15 on platforms, with noroof seats. The car weighs with motors 6.8; loaded 9tons; with overload of 75 passengers, which is usual inspite of laws to the contrar), 12 tons. Lighted by fiveelectric lamps inside and two reflectors outside. The motors first used were bi-polar, 12-horse-power,worm geared one in fifteen pitch. These were soonreplaced by Oerlikon motors, nominal iS-horse-power,but capable of developing up to thirty, driving b) hori-zontal spur gear. These Oerlikon motors (see illustra-tion), are four-poled. The yoke with the pole cores,which also forms the c

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