Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — A New Trolley Brake. [ARTICLE]

A New Trolley Brake.

A Chicago paper describes a new automatic trolley brake, which seems to fill the bill admirably. To work it the motorman has only to turn a crank six inches; that sets a spool working on the axle, the spool winds up the wheels in the length of a car, if necessary, and brings the vehicle to a full stop—a vast improvement over the old brake, which, controlled only by human muscle, generally fails to stop the car in less than several hundred feet. The great merit of the automatic brake is that it will enable the driver to bring the car to a halt in time to permit escape of persons who, under the old brake, would run risk of being overtaken and injured or killed