| Description | Includes:
Rugby works of English Electric Company Ltd (external view showing side of building with clock tower);
Section of high pressure turbine (illustration);
Section of low pressure turbine (illustration);
Two-cylinder turbines at Charing Cross and Bradford;
High and low pressure rotors (including machining);
Method of testing low pressure rotor (illustration ES 1900);
Test pieces taken from low pressure rotor;
Method of boring hole through centre of rotors;
Machining of high and low pressure casing;
Machining of exhaust end chamber;
Reaction blading for low pressure turbine;
Manufacture of impulse blading and nozzles (two images);
Built up diaphragm for high pressure turbine (discharge and inlet sides);
Erection - lowering high pressure rotor into place, low pressure rotor in position, assembling low pressure turbine casing, general view;
View of foundry (diaphragm and heavy casting);
Two-cylinder turbine on test bed;
Corner of test bed at Rugby works;
Sectional arrangements of two cylinder cross-compound steam turbines (TD 116, 117) |