July 5: Insistence that main distinction between riding quality of rail-guided vehicle and road vehicle could be summed up in word impact; comparison between spur, bevel, and worm drives, and advantages of worm drives in noise elimination; present trend in traction-motor design. July 12: Principles underlying problems brought before manufacturers of electrical equipment by tramway operating engineers; noise and track destruction due to impact; noise due to gears; reduction of car weights; increase in schedule speed; trend of motor and control gear design. Paper presented before Tramways and Light Rys. Assn. Aug. 9: Reply made by author to discussion of paper presented before Tramways and Light Railways Association. (See also - (discussion) p 37-44; Elec. Ry. Bus and Tram Jl., vol. 61, July 5, nos. 1512 pp. 5-6 and (discussion) 6-7, 26-42 and July 12, nos. 1513 (discussion) 42-46 and 48 and Aug. 9, nos. 1517 104-105, 11 figs.; Modern Transport, vol. 21, no. 539, July 13, 1929, pp. 23-25)
The modern tramcar
Tramway Ry. World
Tramway and Railway World ; 66 , n 3
1929
14 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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