. The Street railway journal . e being built by the Allgemeine Elek- system, as shown in the plan, is eight of these 6000-hp tricitats-Qesellschaft and will supply three-phase current at 3°2 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 10. 6500 volts and 50 cycles. Two surface condensers, eachof 11,000 sq. ft. of cooling surface and capable of dealingwith 32,000 lbs. of steam, are being supplied by Mather &Piatt. There will be two batteries of three cooling towerseach, to deal with the hot circulating water. Each willbe capable of cooling 90,000 lbs. of water and will guar-antee to reduce the tempera
. The Street railway journal . e being built by the Allgemeine Elek- system, as shown in the plan, is eight of these 6000-hp tricitats-Qesellschaft and will supply three-phase current at 3°2 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 10. 6500 volts and 50 cycles. Two surface condensers, eachof 11,000 sq. ft. of cooling surface and capable of dealingwith 32,000 lbs. of steam, are being supplied by Mather &Piatt. There will be two batteries of three cooling towerseach, to deal with the hot circulating water. Each willbe capable of cooling 90,000 lbs. of water and will guar-antee to reduce the temperature from 125 degs. to 85 degs. which consists of four 150-kw synchronous motor genera-tors, and one 100-kw induction motor balancer. Theseunits are all situated down one side of the new engineroom and constitute the Stuart Street sub-station. An additional gallery will be placed below the level ofthe engine-room floor, for the purpose of carrying all thenecessary starting, regulating and feeder-charging rheo- 13LOCK ILAN. V\Vv w//m\ 1 A v OWJy FIG. 3.—PLAN OF QUEENS ROAD CAR HOUSE each. One battery of towers is being supplied by theWheeler Condenser Company, and the other by ArthurKoppel. The main switchboards, which are being manufacturedby Messrs. Ferranti, are arranged on three galleries whichextend down one side of the engine room. There is to beone main switchboard situated on the middle gallery, and stats and resistances, which are to be worked by gearingand extended spindles carried up through the floor tosuitable pillars and hand wheels, thus enabling each to beworked from its own switchboard level. Normally, thetraction and lighting bus-bars will be kept separate, butarrangements are made for coupling them together if nec-essary, but they will also be connected, respectively, to
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