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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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ARR.\NT,F.MEXT OF TUlKh K.ML. \ouve11e des Etablissments dc ITlornic et de la Riiire, of Lyons,and the electrical equipment was installed by the Societe dElectricitc.\lioth of Miinchenstein-Bale. The rolling stock comprises 80 mo-tor cars and a number of lighter trail cars. .Ml the motor catscan be either operated singly or m trains, and cars are controlledby a single operator m either case. In order to attain this resultA special and very ingenious controller was devised by M. Auvert, so that the shoe enters or leaves it on an indnu-cl plane. The ar-rangement of the motors oflfered great difficullios but the solutionadopted gave unexpectedly good results. The motors are placednt right angles to the axles and transmit the motion through a bev-eled pinion, which is geared to the axles through an elastic pinionwliich contains in ite
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VIEW OF STATION, SIIOWI.NI. IK1.TK< il-.li mlKH RAW.. which operates mom satisfactorily. Tlic 80 motor car? may beclassified as follows: Sixteen electric locomotives; .^6 first anrivfonil class pas«cii-<er cars, which diflfcr only in their interior ar-rniiKement, and z« express and freight cars, some of which arecovered and weigh 20 tons wilboul load, dump cars weighing tg/jIins, flat cars weighing iS/j Ions, unloaded. .Ml of lliese differ- ■.villi two conse(;nent poles and llie polepicces of Ibe frame arc otmild sleel and constitute a light case of Iwo parts, which are bollether by hori/oiilal jolnl. Ibis frame complelely envelopsihe commulator brushes, the armalure and the Held windings. Allarc wound on metal spools, each section being separately insulated.These spools are easily replaced and the winding is of copper strip S74 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. XIV. No. Q. I mm. Ituck. I he armature is in scrirs with iIr- fields anil lias .itoothed ii>ri-. I

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