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There are four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, working up to a
pressure of 120lb., and four of Fowler & Son's horizontal
coupled compound engines, running at about 90 revolutions per
minute ; one of them is of a small size, and works after 12 p.m.
The dynamos are of the Lowell-Barker type, and made by
Elwell, Parker & Co., and are driven by ropes from grooved flywheels
of engines. At present there are about 36,000 8-c.p.
incandescent lamps installed.
The charge is 8d. per B.T. unite for private lighting and 6d.
for public lighting.
The supply is the high tension alternating current system,
and it leaves the station at 2,000 volts, and is transformed.
There is a very good automatic oiling arrangement in use. It
is Mr. Bowden's patent.
WESTMINSTER VESTRY DEPOT.
Your Sub-Committee were informed that the Vestry of Westminster
had adopted to a certain extent a combined system of
dust destructor with an Electric Installation, and visited the
works, after visiting the House-to-House Installation at Chelsea.
When the Westminster Vestry were considering the
arrangements in connection with the erection of stables,
shops, and other buildings in connection with their depot, they
decided to fix a boiler and a furnace for the destruction of
refuse on Mr. Livett's principle. Mr. Wheeler, the Surveyor,
who met the Committee, explained that the furnace consumed
about four loads per day, equal to nine yards for 24 hours; there
was a quantity of clinker, about 75 per cent. of the whole
quantity being consumed, and this is ground up, and used with
lime for mortar. The boiler, which can be worked up to about
80lb., but was giving only about 12½lb. from the refuse, provided
all the steam to work the chaff-cutting machines, mortar
mill, saw benches, as well as the electric dynamos.
The electric installation would give sufficient power for 500
16-c.-p. lights, and there are about 50 lights in the stables, workshops,
sheds, and offices. The Vestry have no power to supply
private consumers, but they could light the street lamps and
their own buildings.
CHELSEA ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY.
The works are situated at Draycott Place, and were erected
in 1887 and occupy the whole of the ground, the area being
small, only about 100ft. deep by 40ft. wide: the necessity for
an extension became apparent at the end of 1894, and a second
generating station was erected in Manor Street.