The Electrical Engineer Volume 14; A Weekly Review of Theoretical and Applied Electricity

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...of single track, extending from the centre of the city to the exhibition grounds. In addition, one of the old lines, that on St. Catherine street, consisting of four miles of double track, was equipped and in operation some ten days later. For present use the company has twenty motor cars of American manufacture and fifteen of Canadian make, besides which, for the complete equipment of all the lines, 100 cars have been ordered from the United States and a like quantity in Canada. These cars are to be equipped with two single-reduction motors of 25 h. p. each, of Royal Electric, Westinghouse, and Edison Companies manufacture. The greater portion of these motors will be furnished by the Royal Electric Company, whose motors have given excellent results. No power house is to be built for the present, power being furnished in the meantime from the lighting stations of the Royal Electric Company. The Central Electric Light Co., of Montreal, Limited, will apply for incorporation, with a capital of 500,000. The object of this company, of which Mr. Louis Perrault is chairman of the provisional directors, is to meet the increasing demand for electricity for light, heat and power. Its intention is to acquire the plant and business of the Perrault Electric Light and Power Co., and to equip, for the present, a station in a central locality of sufficient capacity to supply some 500 arc and 3,000 incandescent lights, besides electric power to the extent of 500 h. p. The company will tender for the lighting of the city of Montreal, the present contract for which expires next year, and, if successful, will largely increase the capacity of its station. Mr. W. J. Morrison, who has so long represented the Fort Wayne Co. in Canada, has now removed from Toronto to Syracuse, wher...