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"The buildings were erected by Messrs. Kirk & Randall,
"and consist of an engine house, 106 feet long by 26 feet
"wide; a boiler house, 53 feet by 35 feet; coal store, 43 feet
"by 11 feet; battery room, 40 feet by 14 feet 6 inches;
"testing room, offices, stores, etc.; condenser water tank,
"underground, containing 170,000 gallons, and chimney 5 feet
"square inside and 90 feet high.
"There are 11 engines and dynamos of the triple expan"sion
type, supplied by Messrs. Willans & Eobinson, and the
"dynamos are all continuous current six pole machines of the
"Kapptype, made by Messrs. Johnson & Phillips. The boilers
"five in number were supplied by the Babcock& Wilcox Co.
"In addition there is an underground Sub-station
"beneath the open space at the Cobden Statue, High Street,
"Camden Town, at a distance of 1,140 yards from the
"central station, containing two batteries of 58 cells.
"The public supply of current commenced on November
"9th, 1891, and by the end of January it had reached the
"equivalent of 6,500 incandescent lamps of 16 c.p., or about
"half the total capacity of the Station.
"At the time of your Sub-Committee's visit, about 8,000
"lights had been applied for."
Since the time of the Committee's visit in March, 1892, the demand
for the current has steadily increased. Your Sub-Committee found
on its recent visit that about 11,000 16 c.p. lamps had been installed,
in fact, on the evening of your Committee's visit 800 lights were
put on from this Station to the Oxford Music Hall.
The Vestry is now supplying 86 10-ampere lamps, each of 1,000 c.p.
nominal, from this Station for public street lighting. These lamps
have been geometrically arranged at varying distances apart, and
are of the "Brockie-Pell" design. Separate dynamos and mains
are used for the supply of current to the street lamps, the pressure
on the mains being 600 volts. Only one dynamo, however, is at
present used, the other being kept in reserve in case of accident.
Your Sub-Committee was unable to get any definite information as
to the cost of working the street lamps as compared with gas, as the
accounts relating to this work were in course of preparation.