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Peak Tramway.
11. The company shall give one month's notice in writing to the Director of every intended change or alteration of or in any carriage or engine used on or in connexion with the tramway, or of or in the permanent way or rails, and the Director may if he thinks fit require the same to be tested, and may where the circumstances of the case permit allow any such change or alteration to be made prior to the expiration of such notice as aforesaid.
12. The Director shall be immediately notified by the company of any change in the person performing, temporarily or otherwise, the duties of the Superintendent Engineer.
13. The rope shall be examined by the Superintendent Engineer for broken wires, and the circumference gauged, at least twice a week during the first month of its being put in use, and at least once a week afterwards till signs of wear appear, when the examination must be made daily, and the company shall be responsible for the renewal of the rope directly such renewal becomes necessary in the opinion of the Superintendent Engineer.
14. The undercarriages and brake gear of the passenger carriages, and the apparatus for starting or stopping the carriages, shall be subjected to a thorough examination by the Superintendent Engineer at least once a week, when the brake gear shall be released, the brake jaws screwed up by hand, all parts hammer-tested, the tightness of all nuts tested by spanner, all parts well greased or oiled as required and the brake gear re-set. The holding down bolts of the brake rail and running rails shall be tested and tightened every week.
15. No passenger carriage shall be used on the tramway, or continued in use, unless and until the inner faces of the brake jaws are roughened by chisel cross cuts.
16. The inner faces of the brake jaws of the passenger carriages shall be subjected to careful examination by the Superintendent Engineer at least once a week. If from any cause the roughened surface has become smooth such faces shall be re-roughened in manner aforesaid before the carriage is again used on the tramway. The cause of smoothing shall be ascertained and removed if practicable.
17. The faces of the centre rail, where the gradient exceeds 1 in 3, shall be roughened by chisel cross cuts; the roughened faces shall be treated with a coating of tar applied whilst hot.
18. The roughened faces of the centre rail shall be subjected to a careful examination by the Superintendent Engineer at least once a week; any smoothing shall be remedied as soon as practicable by re-roughening in manner aforesaid and by again treating with a coating of tar applied whilst hot. The cause of smoothing shall be ascertained and removed if practicable.
19. The points and signalling apparatus and lights in connexion with the points shall be examined weekly.
20. All accident prevention apparatus shall be examined weekly by the Superintendent Engineer.
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