Kirkman, Marshall Monroe, 1842-1921 · New York, Chicago, The World Railway Publishing Company · leaf 84
ty per cent., and the hooks or lugs, being of malleable metal, cannot break, as sometimes happens when they are of common cast iron or of the same material as the body of shoe. Fig. 9 gives two views of the now standard Lappin car shoe of the M. C. B. type with steel back, one showing the back of… … brake head and falls off; but with the Fig. 10. Lappin Brake malleable metal back extending over Shoe.
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