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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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le pole only and of a limited range, but have recently beenbuilt so large as to demonstrate their entire success for any re-quired capacity. These are in use both in America and abroad,largely in connection with storage battery work. In the I. T. E. circuit breakers the mechanical features arecarefully considered, as well as electrical details. The instrumentsare also designed to be graceful and pleasing in appearance. TheCutter Electrical & Manufacturing Company has recently pub-lished a very large and handsome volume, which is devoted ex-clusively to the important subject of switchboards and the appli-ances used thereon, and this book should be in the hands of everyone interested in power station apparatus. Parlor Cars in Manchester, N. H. The Briggs Carriage Company, of Amesbury, Mass., has re-cently completed a very handsome private car for use in Man-chester, N. H. An exterior view of this car is shown herewith.The car measures 30 ft. over all, and the interior is finished in
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PARLOR CAR IN MANCHESTER mahogany and oak with quartered oak flooring. The door lockershave heavy plate glass coming down to the belt rail of the car.Both platforms are protected by means of heavy spring rollercurtains, also with storm curtains to separate the car from thespace occupied by the motorman if desired. The grill work andmain panels are painted in royal blue with gold decorations, andthe sills and concave panels of the car body are finished in cream. — Preparations for Cleaning Cars The Modoc Soap Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has devoteda number of years to developing its Modoc liquid car cleaner,which is especially adapted to cleaning the exterior and interiorof street and steam railroad cars. It is a linseed oil preparation,and is used daily on many of the principal railroad, sleeping carand street car companies of America and Canada, but it is in-tended for terminal and yard cleaning only. It is to be appliedwith waste thoroughly saturated, on cars after they have mad

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