"In Power Stations" : advert issued by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co Ltd., Manchester : in the centenary issue of The Engineer, 1956
Metropolitan-Vickers were one of the major UK electrical manufacturers and were based at Trafford Park in Manchester. As the advert notes they were part of the AEI Group that for many years although it included M-V and British Thomson Houston effectively allowed both concerns to compete for business.
This fine advert, in the 1956 special issue of The Engineer, effectively looks down on to the cooling towers of a electricity generating station along with a list of equipment manufactured by M-V. At the time the UK was, under the nationalised electricity industry, in the midst of a massive construction programme of power stations to both replace outdated generating stations and building new, larger stations to cope with the increasing demands of both industrial and domestic users.
The artwork is sadly uncredited - a shame as it is of that 'heroic' period.
"In Power Stations" : advert issued by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co Ltd., Manchester : in the centenary issue of The Engineer, 1956
Metropolitan-Vickers were one of the major UK electrical manufacturers and were based at Trafford Park in Manchester. As the advert notes they were part of the AEI Group that for many years although it included M-V and British Thomson Houston effectively allowed both concerns to compete for business.
This fine advert, in the 1956 special issue of The Engineer, effectively looks down on to the cooling towers of a electricity generating station along with a list of equipment manufactured by M-V. At the time the UK was, under the nationalised electricity industry, in the midst of a massive construction programme of power stations to both replace outdated generating stations and building new, larger stations to cope with the increasing demands of both industrial and domestic users.
The artwork is sadly uncredited - a shame as it is of that 'heroic' period.