. The Street railway journal . ailed drawings to meet therequirements supplied to him bv Mr. Ellis. POWER STATION EQUIPMENT The present power-station buildings, it is expected, willbe fully equipped during the present year. At the presenttime there are in the engine room four engines each of 500hp, and two more on order of 1600 hp each. The enginesare supplied by John Musgrave & Sons, Ltd., of Bolton,Lancashire. They are all of the inverted vertical cross-compound condensing type and of heavy design. Theywork under a steam pressure of 140 lbs. per square inch,and run at a speed of 100 revoluti
. The Street railway journal . ailed drawings to meet therequirements supplied to him bv Mr. Ellis. POWER STATION EQUIPMENT The present power-station buildings, it is expected, willbe fully equipped during the present year. At the presenttime there are in the engine room four engines each of 500hp, and two more on order of 1600 hp each. The enginesare supplied by John Musgrave & Sons, Ltd., of Bolton,Lancashire. They are all of the inverted vertical cross-compound condensing type and of heavy design. Theywork under a steam pressure of 140 lbs. per square inch,and run at a speed of 100 revolutions per minute. Eachengine is fitted with its own condenser, driven by side leversfrom the crossheads. The air pumps of the smaller sets are are fitted with Corliss-valve gear on both cylinders, workedby means of eccentrics fixed to the crankshafts. Each en-gine is provided with Musgraves patent automatic cut-offmotion, connected direct to the governor. The engine isentirely closed, and forced lubrication is applied to the. THE POWER STATION crank shaft necks, crank pins, crosshead pins, slide blocksand eccentrics by means of two ram pumps, fixed on eachside of the engine. The governors are of the quick speedtype, driven by ropes from the crankshafts. Means are alsoprovided so that the speed can be altered by hand whilst
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