[PRCo] Re: FW: [Interurbans] Re: Headlight Dimming switches and Windshield Wiper

[Fred Schneider]

A pug of chewing tobacco wiped on the window acted as a wetting agent,
reducing surface tension, and allowing water to sheet off of it.  Of
course
this required the operator to get out in the rain periodically.

fws

tsquare wrote:

> Pittsburgh Rwys' 100, 1000's, and 1100's had air-operated
> horizontal wipers as original equipment -- many of these
> cars were retrofitted with swing-arc wipers about mid-life.
> Each windscreen had a pair of two wipers which shuttled
> back and forth.  I never saw any of them work (in my mind,
> anyway) satisfactorily -- there didn't seem to be enough
> pressure exerted by the wiper on the glass.  PRC resolved
> the problem with a more conventional set-up on the 1200's.
>
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