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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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very popular among street railway men. THE TOWER BRIDGE, LONDON. We are fortunate in being able to present to ourreaders, this month, an engraving of the remarkable bronze wheel claims a record of 1,000 miles and is stillrunning on its patent graphite bearings. The trolleyharps made by the company are of bronze, brass, steel,or malleable iron, as desired, and give the best of satis-faction, being light and strong. The Hubley companyalso makes a specialty of complete overhead equipmentand car trimmings of excellent design and finish. Theprice list and catalogue of all the Hubley specialties willbe mailed on application. The Card Electric Company, of Mansfield, O., isbuilding double motor equipments as well as single. Itis very evident that on small level roads it is useless toweight down a car with double equipments, and for thisreason the company advocates the single motor equip-ment. For roads on which there is heavy traffic, trailershave to be hauled and heavy grades encountered, it
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TOWER BRIDGE, LONDON. Tower Bridge, London, England, recently opened byWales and approved by his royal mamma. The bridge is of the bascule type, with two leaves,each weighing 1,000 tons, and the time occupied foropening or closing is two minutes. It will be noticedthat at the top of the towers is a connecting foot bridgefor pedestrians, and inside the towers run two elevatorsfor the convenience of bridged walkers. The leavesare raised and lowered hydraulically, and a 360-horse-power steam plant is required in the operation. The cor-poration of London built the structure at a cost of £830,-005, or roundly, $4,150,025. We are indebted to Lon-don Engineering for the illustration and the data given. The Hubley Manufacturing Company, of Lancaster,Pa., reports a first-class trade in trolley wheels, harps anddynamos and motor bearings. The Hubley special recommends double 20s, 25s or 30s, as the case mayrequire. The Card Company build its motors for highspeed for interurban business, and of

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