Show A fiew airale for sired cars one ot the most important changes now going on in electric ay work Is the substitution of mechanical or automatic lower brakes for the crude hand brakes that depend upon the caus cle of the motorola tl e progress ave street car lines are ev incer a pre ference for brakes that eliminate the factor of human power and endurance and are rapidly brakes the air for which Is compressed by the car itself there are also one or avio brakef abil a rew forms of magnetic brike br ike it form la that of a hydraulic is worthy of note until recently street railway had a brej adice idice 11 power brakes on the core of their causing flat wheels aton that the truth Is exactly op ind that the quicker the brake la applied the less the flattening effect the hand brake working with comparative para tive slowness and with less facility tends it seem to make the wheels skid and flaaten strangely enough outside of this country there la very little public worry on the subject of fenders ant the demand for power brakes almost everywhere takes the form of a government or municipal regulation it Is believed that ameri can opinion will also reach this point in no matter how gaoa the fend era may prove to be another candib cation of street car practice is expected in the adoption of more musical the prevalent type not only deafen the passers by but nse up the energy of the motormen and jar their nervous systems it baa also been credic ed that the big heavy lever handles now familiar on the cars will disappear and that theman will be been controlling the movements of the car by a email ever or even by A simple unobtrusive push button mining and press san francisco |