Show A BIG TUMBLE IN PRICE now the cost of equipping an car tako the electric railway field for in stance which is undoubtedly the branch of electrical work possessing the greatest possibilities for rapid commercial development and consequently offers a constantly growing market for electrical manufactures six yeara ago the price for a complete equipment for a trolley car including two motors was about this price held tor a year and a half and then dropped to agoo and until two years ago it was about one year ago 2000 was the price of the same equipment greatly improved in quality and efficiency while today tho average price is between 1000 and 1200 we bavo been told of an electric railway manager who desired quite recently to purchase an equipment for a single car he wrote to seven manufacturing companies and was called upon by seven salesmen all of whom bad paid traveling expenses to try for tho order the prices quoted ranged from 1600 to the manager bought the apparatus hero we havo a decrease in actual belling bricca from in 1888 to in 1894 a period of six years in 1888 chero seven electric railways in the united states in january 1890 there were railways in operation and in process of construction in january 1891 this number had grown to 81 while today there are probably over COO cities in the united states equipped with electric roads many of them of great mileage electrical bo view |