. Electrical news and engineering . Mr. Peter Lvall, Director. will be in all seventy-two wheels. The power housewill consist of a building about one thousand feet longwith three centre portions divided off so as to form thedynamo house starting from the shore. There will be on each line of shaft six wheels and agenerator ; then a generator and six wheels ; thenagain six wheels and a generator and a generator andsix wheels ; then six wheels and a generator ; then agenerator and six wheels. This doubled will completethe electrical lay-out. The building is of steel con-struction, the dynamo port
. Electrical news and engineering . Mr. Peter Lvall, Director. will be in all seventy-two wheels. The power housewill consist of a building about one thousand feet longwith three centre portions divided off so as to form thedynamo house starting from the shore. There will be on each line of shaft six wheels and agenerator ; then a generator and six wheels ; thenagain six wheels and a generator and a generator andsix wheels ; then six wheels and a generator ; then agenerator and six wheels. This doubled will completethe electrical lay-out. The building is of steel con-struction, the dynamo portions being Laprairie pressedbrick. The foundations and flooring of the dynamohouses are of concrete and steel beams, and the turbinesheds of steel work with three inch plank covered withcorrugated iron. A traveller, capable of carrying twenty-five tons with. Mr. E. K. Greene, Director. thirty-nine feet span, will travel the full length of thedynamo house and turbine sheds moving any machinerythat may be required and at the same time placed so asto lower or raise the head gates. The switch-boardswill be of the latest type. The pole line starting fromthe power house is constructed of lattice steel poles andcalculated to stand a wind pressure of six thousandpounds. It is fitted up with 6x6 cross-arms, made of November, if CflNflDIflN ELECTRlCflli NEWS 219 British Columbia fir with double petticoated porcelaininsulators, and carrying No. o wires as far as theLachine Canal, near the Curran bridge, when it willpass underground until it enters the sub-station locatedat the intersection of Seminary and McCord current will from this point be distributed through-out the city in underground conduits, which are beingconstructed by the Standard Light & Power Company.
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