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Identifier: streetrailwayjo121896newy (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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mp; Company, of Lansingburgh, N. Y., showedone of their Common Sense sand boxes in the exhibit of the CentralElectric Company, of Chicago. Mr. de Witt was present at theconvention and explained the working of the box to all interested.Its simplicity and effectiveness were favorably commented upon. The National Water Tube Boiler Company, of New Bruns-wick, N. J., exhibited a model of its water tube boiler, together witha model of its shaking grate. A circular was distributed giving alist of the prominent electric railway companies using the boiler.The rocking grate, it is claimed, saves fifteen per cent in coal bills. The John Stephenson Company, of New York, was representedby D. W. and John Pugh, who have attended a great many conven-tions, and who were among the best known among all the attend-ants at St. Louis. The company made no exhibit, but distributed avery handsomely leather-bound notebook, which was eagerly sougbtafter. The Duff Manufacturing Company, of Allegheny, Pa., exhib-
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VIEW OF CONVENTION HALL FROM EASTERN GALLERY. The National Lock Washer Company, of Newark, N. J., ex-hibited a number of its lock washers for track bolts and all workwhere nuts are to be locked. The exhibit was in charge of J. G.Miller, the St. Louis agent of the company. Ezra H. Linley, of St. Louis, occupied a space in the westernend of the convention hall and exhibited a full line of street rail-way supplies for which he is the agent. These included a variety ofCambria rail sections, springs, engine room supplies, etc. The American Railway Supply Company, of New York,showed a handsome collection of the different badges for motormenand conductors, which it manufactures, and these were tastefullyarranged on a large panel covered with dark blue plush and mountedin a brass frame. The R. D. Nuttall Company,of Allegheny, Pa., exhibited a fineassortment of gears and pinions, trolley wheels and harps, completetrolleys, etc. The exhibit attracted much attention on account ofits completeness
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