Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1915 — SWITCH SHIFTER IS NEW [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SWITCH SHIFTER IS NEW

Invention Has Many Points of Value Which Are Clear Even to the Inexperienced. This invention relates to means for switching street railway cars and the main object is to provide a device which will accomplish this result from

the front platform of a car and be under control of the motorman. Another object of the invention is to provide a device which is normally out of operative position, but which may be placed in operative position by the motorman’s foot. A further object is to provide a foot pedal whereby the motorman may, at will, throw a switch to the right or to the left — Scientific American.

Switch Shifter.