Identifier: streetrailwayjo151899newy (find matches)
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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H. Prestwick, George F.Fry, Robert B. Barningham, Robert S. Boddington, John Kerrand Geoge Flett. The manager of the company is E. A. Stanley,formerly of the Jackson & Sharp Company, of Wilmington, Del.,and the secretary, J. Baynes. The works are close to the Albert Edward Docks, and the RiverRibble, and have sidings into them from the London & NorthWestern and the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways. There is iron framework, and from it there are run separate distributingfeeders for lighting and for power in each of the shops. Thepressure is 230 volts, which is considered the most suitable forcombined distribution to motors, incandescent and arc light, andby a special arrangement of the switchboard the dynamo and astorage battery, which under normal conditions are operated inparallel, can be connected in series to a special bus-bar when it isnecessary to test motor cars on the experimental track mentionedhereafter. The storage battery consists of 140 chloride cells, having a
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END VIEW OF MAIN BUILDINGS, PRESTON every facility for the receiving and dispatch of materials and goods,whether by sea or land. The buildings are so extensive that ofthe thirteen acres to which the property extends, from four tofive acres are under cover. System and orderly sequence, result-ing in efficiency and economy, form the key-note of the wholeplant. Beginning at the entrance, and taking those in the southand afterward those on the north, the buildings include the fol-lowing: To the right of the entrance, general stores; to the left,the offices of the company; at the south end of the ground, abuilding for cutting and storing timber and lumber; at the northend of the ground, boiler and engine rooms, bogie fitting, machineand smiths shops, carpentry and erecting shops, paint shop, andpit shop where the numerous pits between the tracks admit of the capacity of 440 amp. hours, and is intended for use in lighting thebuildings during the night, or should it be found necessary to wor

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