CONTINUOUS RAILWAY BRAKES.
. TO THB EDITOR OF THE PBESS. Sir, —Your correspondent, the Wellington Inspector of the Westingho-use Brake Company, Iras hardly been fair to that brake, and will not, I think, earn the thanks of his employers by claiming for it defects and failures which in my article on "Continuous Railway Brakes" I was careful not to allocate. • A month after the publication of that article'he. haa written completely misrepresenting its tenor; has termed incorrect or imaginary statements of fact I there made, and, further, to support his contentions has made comparisons, the mildest term for wMch is misleading. - I cannot under such circumstances enter on a discussion with him, nor in any case should I have inclined to a correspondence on the merits and demerits of the rival braked. Such lam contented to leave to those most directly interested, and have therefore forwarded copies of the papers containing my article and your correspondent's letter to both the Vacuum and Westinghouse Brake Companies, from whom it is possible you may receive some further communication. In the meantime I may mention that experience of machinery has led mc to believe that the catch phrase, "The automatic which seldom acts," is not absolutely ancorrect.— Yours, etc, ROBT. J. SCOTT, Member Inst. C.E. w Member Inst. Mech. E. Chrkstehtffch, September 10th, 1900.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10760, 13 September 1900, Page 3
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