Freight car hand brakes - 4
10. Jemco wheel from the
early 1930s.
11. Klasing geared brake
with horizontal roof-top
wheel from the mid-1930s.
12. Klasing model 646
wheel.
10
11
12
Jemco Products Company
Jemco introduced a geared power hand brake in the late 1920s
(10) that remained unchanged until the 1950s. The basic design
of the Jemco wheel would be repeated by Universal with their
model M2049 (23) some 20 years later.
Klasing Car Brake Co.
In the mid-1930s, Klasing briefly offered a geared brake mecha-
nism with a horizontally mounted roof top wheel (11). The
advantage over the general practice of a vertically mounted
wheel on the end of the car is unclear. In 1936 Klasing intro-
duced a more conventional geared brake with an intricately pat-
terned brake wheel it designated model 646 (12). Similar wheels
with slight variations in the lacy pattern appeared throughout
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