Excerpt from The Motorman and His Duties: A Handbook of Theory and Practice of Electric Railway Car Operation
The purpose of this work is to so familiarize the reader with the operation of an electric car, that the practical duties of a motorman may be the more easily and quickly learned. At the same time it will be found to explain, in simple language devoid of mathematics and technicalities, many points not generally understood by the average motorman, and a knowledge of which cannot; fail to make his services more valuable to his company and satisfactory to himself; and also to better fit him for promotion.
The motorman who understands his business is able to operate the cars that are put in his charge with much less danger of accident, and with less power and less wear on the equipment, than a man who simply knows how to get his car over the road on time. This book is not only intended to explain the electrical part of an electric motor car, but to give some general instruction and advice, to those who desire to make this work their livelihood. It is based on the experience gathered for a number of years in the electric railway field, instructing motormen in their duties and work, and on results and observations made on roads in practical life. To explain some electrical effects it has been necessary to adopt a few comparisons, which, while not exactly correct from a scientific standpoint, give the reader a clear picture of what is meant.
The author desires to acknowledge the generous assistance of the manufacturing companies whose apparatus is explained and illustrated in the following pages.
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