. Marine Engineer . he engineand boiler shops. The works are supplied with thecurrent from the generating station of the Clyde ValleyElectric Supply Co., at Yoker, about a mile furtherdown the Clyde. The current is three-phase, alter-nating, 11,000 volts, delivered at a substation near theengineering shop, where it is transformed to alternatingcurrent at 400 to 440 volts. Parallel to the boiler-shop building, and about a100 feet nearer the river, is the steel-workers shed, adopted, and every allowance is made in the roofarrangements for the extension of this system. In the open yard space betw
. Marine Engineer . he engineand boiler shops. The works are supplied with thecurrent from the generating station of the Clyde ValleyElectric Supply Co., at Yoker, about a mile furtherdown the Clyde. The current is three-phase, alter-nating, 11,000 volts, delivered at a substation near theengineering shop, where it is transformed to alternatingcurrent at 400 to 440 volts. Parallel to the boiler-shop building, and about a100 feet nearer the river, is the steel-workers shed, adopted, and every allowance is made in the roofarrangements for the extension of this system. In the open yard space between the front of thesteel-workers shed and the heads of the buildingberths are a number of motor-driven tools, includingpunching and shearing machines, plate-bendmg rolls,joggling rolls, etc., the current to which is carried bycables on light steel masts, so placed that themachines may be shifted wherever most convenientfor the work in hand. Radiating from the steel-workers shed and traversing the full length of the. Yarrow & Co s Works—Interior of Boiler Shops--Preparing Deck Plating with sides which for most part can be left open orclosed according to weather conditions, and entirelyroofed with glass. This contains, besides the neces-sary variety of shearing, punching, flattening andLightening machine tools, the heating furnaces and(with attendant screw boards) requi: itelor the work oi giving proper curvature to plates andbars. Most of the machines here are driven fromline shafting, and the shed is well appointed as re-gards the hoisting and holding up of the material tothe 1; ma Overhead runnings are berths is a system of 24-in. gauge light railway whichgreatly facilitates transport of To the west of the tidal basin and parallel to it isa range of two-storey brick buildings, which are de-voted to the pattern-making, joinery and polishingshops. In the upper floor is the moulding loflwhere the vessels are laid off full size. The lengthof building is 273 ft. 6
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