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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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he rule in most German works, and tlirprices appear to be arranged on an easy basis, as the hands young women do all the work; the boys are either atschool or going through their military drill. Those whoknow what it is to run an English shop full of boys willappreciate the German system. A feature of the German works is the orderliness to befound everywhere and the ease with which the various de-partments work together without any overlapping, nodoubt due to the sense of discipline, which is second na-ture to a German. The German military system may have some draw-backs, yet the most prejudiced observer can not fail to seethat the various manufacturers benefit largely from the factthat every able-bodied man in the works is, to all intentsand purposes, a soldier. Many members of the stafif arealso officers of the reserve; in fact, the electrical firms liketo have as many officers on their stafif as possible, as itgives the firm prestige. 282 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIIL No. io.
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SECTIONS, PLAN AND ELEVATION OF MOTORS USED ON THE WANNSEE RAILWAY September 7, 1901.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 283 On the Continent a workman can easily travel or trampfrom country to country, and he thus broadens his mind,and by going from works to works sees that engineeringscience or ability is not a thing which any nation or col-lection of individuals can claim to themselves. Great Brit-ain benefits to some extent from her insular position, andyet she loses considerably in that there is not that rapid in-terchange of thought and ideas which is met with on theContinent. It may be worth mentioning that many of theleading electrical firms have factories in various countries,and on this account have a big pull, not only because theyare better able to judge of the local requirements, but also A\

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