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ime the Spokes better resist torsionvibration is checked

°y curving the spokes. _ A „„„u

Another, constructed of plain bars, one .being hent so as to overlap or lie round the on ,

rt, and form a wrought-iron nave ; parts of tbefore being welded together.

543 Patent SnASTand Axletree CoitPANV,

Iron Works, Wednesbury, Birmingham— Manulacturei.Patent railway-carriage axle, as finished hy t e org

hammer. ,

Patent fagot, previous to its being welded and s ape

into a patent axle.

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Central bar, used in the formation of the patent fagot

radial bar, fractured to indicate the quality.

Axle end, showing the perfect union of the radial and

central bars in the welded fagot.

Patent axle (broad gauge), four and a half inches

diameter, bent and twisted, without fracture, in conse-quence of receiving the shock of a heavy train, going at

the rate of sixty miles an hour.

The patent mode of manufacture makes the axles

squally strong throughout; the ^a,goi is made in a cylin-

form by the external bars being rolled » '

Wl bar. Such a fagot•• — 1

tne ra^o w __

The patent mode of m»u—

equally strong throughout; the fagot is made m .» _

drical form by the external bars being rolled so as to fitaccurately around a central bar. Such a fagot, howeverlarge, is perfectly welded throughout its whole length at

one heat.

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