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DocRefNoCR4031/5/48
LevelItem
TitleEnglish Electric steam turbine installations photo album
Date1930s
DescriptionIncludes the following (with captions in English and French):
City of Athens - St. George's Bay Power Station (three external views), three steam turbo-alternator sets (interior);
City of Budapest (Banhida power station) - in course of construction containing three turbo-alteranor sets (exterior), two of the three turbo-alternator sets (interior);
Leicester Corporation power station - two exterior views, steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
Preston Corporation (Ribble power station) - three exterior views, four steam turbo-alternator sets (interior);
Blackburn Corporation power station - two exterior views with coal barge in the foreground;
Shropshire, Worcestershire And Staffordshire Electric Power Co. (Stourport power station) - two steam turbo-alternator sets (interior), governing valve gear of steam turbine (interior), fabricated condenser for steam turbine with end door open and closed (two interior views), closed circuit air cooler for turbo-alternator set (interior) [these images are not together in sequence in the album];
Yorkshire Electric Power Co. (Thornhill power station) - two steam turbo-alternator sets (two interior views);
Yorkshire Electric Power Co. (Ferrybridge power station) - steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
Sheffield Corporation (Blackburn Meadows power station) - three steam turbo-alternator sets (interior), steam turbo-alternator set (two installed) (interior), steam turbo-alternator set (interior view looking on steam end), steam turbo-alternator set (interior), steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
Bradford Corporation - steam turbo-alternator set (interior), geared back-pressure superposed steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
County Borough of West Ham - steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
Glasgow Corporation (Dalmarnock power station) - steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
Bolton Corporation - steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
Cawnpore Electric Supply Co. (Cawnpore power station) - steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
Edward Lloyd Ltd, Sittingbourne - two-cylinder pass-out steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
Slough Estates Ltd - steam turbo-alternator set in course of erection on site (interior);
Stewart & Lloyds Limited, Corby - steam turbo-alternator set (interior);
Rotors of multi-cylinder steam turbines for Huddersfield Corporation and Yorkshire Electric Power Co. (Ferrybridge power station) respectively (interior);
Low pressure rotor of multi-cylinder steam turbine in Dynamic Balancing Machine at Rugby Works (interior);
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Abadan - fabricated condensers for steam turbine (interior);
Bomb-proof house for testing turbine rotors under overspeed conditions [at Rugby Works] (exterior);
Turbine wheel testing machine, Rugby Works (interior).
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