. Canadian foundryman (1918). Peterboroughoccupies a site of about 35 acresand is devoted chiefly to the man-ufacture of generators, motors,transformers, switchboards andother electrical proucts. The principal plant of the Can-adian Allis-Chalmers known asthe Davenport works, Toronto,covers over 40 acres and includesmachine shops, pattern shops,grey iron foundry, pipe foundry,boiler, plate and forge much of the heavier engin-eering work developed; locomo-tives, steam shovels, structuralsteel railway and highway bridges be-ing among the products. One of the accompanying illustrations
. Canadian foundryman (1918). Peterboroughoccupies a site of about 35 acresand is devoted chiefly to the man-ufacture of generators, motors,transformers, switchboards andother electrical proucts. The principal plant of the Can-adian Allis-Chalmers known asthe Davenport works, Toronto,covers over 40 acres and includesmachine shops, pattern shops,grey iron foundry, pipe foundry,boiler, plate and forge much of the heavier engin-eering work developed; locomo-tives, steam shovels, structuralsteel railway and highway bridges be-ing among the products. One of the accompanying illustrationsshows the interior of the foundry. Herethe major portion of the large and in-tricate moulding and casting is done. Another view shows an interesting piecefactory of the latter company at Peter-borough occupies a site of about 35 acresand is devoted chiefly to the manufactureof generators, motors, transformers,switchboards and other electrical pro-ducts. The principal plant of the CanadianAllis-Chalmers known as the Davenport. PLATE WORK ELBOW FOR PENSTOCK FOR NIAGARAFALLS POWER PLANT. works, Toronto, covers over 40 acres andincludes machine shops, pattern shops,grey iron foundry, pipe foundry, boiler,plate and forge shops. Here much ofthe heavier engineering work developed;locomotives, steam shovels, structural concrete spiral casing, the turbine whenof core work in connection with the build-ing of a vertical water turbine set in ainstalled developing 6,000 at 164revs, per min. and under a head of 70ft. The cores shown are for the runnerand the method of building up the com-plete mold by the assembling of the nu-merous cores is clearly shown. The plate shop makes a spe-cialty of heavy and difficult workand the illustration showing apenstock elbow gives some idea ofthe work encountered in mould-ing the large penstocks necessaryfor the power plant at NiagaraFalls. The penstock elbow illus-trated is 10 ft. 6 ins. diameter atthe bottom and terminates in anellipse at the top 12
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