Historical information

Has a table of contents, outlines the rules of operating brake equipment fitted to tramcars, the SM3, SX2 brake valve, locomotive straight air, installation piping, wiring, maintenance - piston travel, lubrication, car tests, hints to Motormen and Conductors and General Hints. Schedule for SM-1 and featherweight equipment.

Includes instructions on compressors, air intakes, valves, cylinders and governors.

Significance

Provides instructions about Westinghouse air brake equipment used on tramcars around the world.

Physical description

Instruction - 48 pages + light brown card cover centre stapled with cloth binding on outer edge + 13 fold out drawings inside the rear cover, titled "Westinghouse - T5001-1 Straight-Air Brake Equipment". Dated March 1923.

Inscriptions & markings

On first page a signature in ink - "W. Armstrong"?