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Document - Instruction Book, Westinghouse Brake Company of Australasia Limited and The Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Co. Ltd. of 82 York Road and Kings Cross London, "Westinghouse Railway Operating Data", 2000
Photocopy of 54 data sheets published by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company of East Pittsburgh Pa, USA c1920. Consists of plastic cover, header page with Westinghouse logo, contents sheets (2 pages), forward, 67 pages (single side photocopy) and heavy rear card cover bound with a green comb binder. Original material lent by Craig Tooke of the Melbourne Tramcar Preservation Association at Haddon. Photocopied by Warren Doubleday March 2000. List of contents produced 30/6/2000 and then bound.
Contains data sheets regarding motors, commutators, brushes, armatures, bearings, field coils, pinions, lubrication, air piping, axle collars, resistance grids, gear cases and other technical information.
Westinghouse Railway Operating Data 30/6/2000
List of Contents Page No.
Care and repair of commutators 1
Undercutting commutators 2
Railway Motor carbon brushes 3
Brush holders 4
Flashing of railway motors 5
Soldering railway armatures 6
Armature Winding 7
Banding armatures 8
Railway Motor Bearings 9
Lubrication of railway motor bearings 10
How to babbitt motor bearings 11
Oil, grease and waster for motors and gears 12
Saturation of motor bearing waste 13
Testing Polarity of Field Coils 14
Charging of storage batteries on Interurban & street rail cars 15
Precautions to be taken with blower installations on motor cars 16
Putting on Railway Motor Pinions 17
How to take armatures out of box frame motors 18
Dipping and Baking of Railway Motors 19
War time dipping and baking outfits 20
Dipping and baking railway motors will decrease troubles 21
Protection of Motor Bearings from Dust 25
Winter Operation of Railway Motor equipments 26
Installation of Air piping to prevent freezing 27
Maintenance of Traction Brake Equipment 28
Maintenance of controller fingers and contacts 29
Hand operated circuit breakers 30
Railway Motor Testing I 31
Railway Motor Testing II 33
Railway Motor Testing III 35
Railway Motor Testing IV 36
Railway Motor Testing V 37
Removing and replacing railway motor armature shaft 39
Mounting and Maintenance of car resistors 40
Lubrication of control apparatus 41
Maintenance of fuse boxes for railway service 42
Does it pay to dip and bake armatures 43
Dipping and Baking as a financial asset 44
Shop Organisation 45
Tinning Malleable Iron Bearing shells 46
Life of armature bearings or railway motors 47
The assembly of complete sets of commutator segments 48
Electric welding as a factor in reclamation 50
Metal to Metal press, shrink and clamping fit allowances 52
Life of railway motor carbon brushes 54
General information of grid resistance design for the operating man 56
Stopping a car by braking with the motors 57
Railway Motor shafts and their maintenance 58
Axle collars 59
Gear cases 60
Ventilated railway motors 62
Revamping Loose armature bearings 64
Life of axle bearings of railway motors 65
Heat-treated bolts for railway service 66
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