24. Ureco – from the late
1920s.
25. Ureco – mid 1930s
through WWII.
26. Ureco model U528 –
mid ‘40s to mid ‘50s.
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Ureco - Union Railway Equipment Co.
Ureco’s initial vertical brake wheel introduced in the late 1920s,
was a basic 22-inch cast malleable iron wheel with six spokes
emanating in a spiral from a medium-sized hub (24). A more dis-
tinctive design came in 1936 with the introduction of the model
U498 brake wheel (25) that resembled a flying squirrel. After
World War II, Ureco began selling brake wheel model U528 (26)
that had five straight spokes, a plain rim, and an equally plain
inner ring midway to the hub.
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