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I hear gladly jazz music. My favorite is Miles Davis. In the background can you see a japanese stereo amplifier in champagne color.
Electric power companies tend to build large and very heavy, structurally sound buildings because they sometimes contain elements like transformers that deal in very large amounts of energy. It is protection and strength, in case of a malfunction. Photograph taken in Sacramento, California.
I like transformers and wires. Minox 35PL, Color-Minotar 35mm f/2.8. Kodak Pro Image 100 film.
McDonough, Georgia
Making of, one of the ideas, the inside of one sqaure would fullfill the requirements for size of 75 x 75 mm for Macro Mondays size restriction. Therefore the title.
Other then this, fine dark chocolodad, pralinees from a well know german brand, and not eaten. So close to food fotography, but not some extra calories , not yet eaten.
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Making of, one of the ideas, the inside of one sqaure would fullfill the requirements for size of 75 x 75 mm for Macro Mondays size restriction. There for the title.
Other then this, fine dark chocolodad, pralinees from a well know german brand, and not eaten. So close to food fotography, but not some extra calories , not yet eaten.
Feel free to leave comments and constructive feedback. No P1/C1 or seen in group and similar.
Making of, one of the ideas, the inside of one sqaure would fullfill the requirements for size of 75 x 75 mm for Macro Mondays size restriction. There for the title.
Other then this, fine dark chocolodad, pralinees from a well know german brand, and not eaten. So close to food fotography, but not some extra calories , not yet eaten.
Feel free to leave comments and constructive feedback. No P1/C1 or seen in group and similar.
I found this in my yard after the Power Company people finally got all the hurricane Matthew-caused felled trees, downed lines, burnt out transformers, and leaning poles back into order. I think it is an interesting, if not beautiful, piece of industrial art; heavy, milky white porcelain with a dark black cap . It is, of course, just an electric insulator.
Making of, one of the ideas, the inside of one sqaure would fullfill the requirements for size of 75 x 75 mm for Macro Mondays size restriction. There for the title.
Other then this, fine dark chocolodad, pralinees from a well know german brand, and not eaten. So close to food fotography, but not some extra calories , not yet eaten.
Feel free to leave comments and constructive feedback. No P1/C1 or seen in group and similar.
Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh idir 1954 agus 1958 é, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuidigh go mór le feirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh sa bhliain 2002 é.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch Mhín na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh é idir 1954 agus 1958, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuaigh chun tairbhe d'fheirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh é sa bhliain 2002.
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Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh idir 1954 agus 1958 é, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuidigh go mór le feirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh sa bhliain 2002 é.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh idir 1954 agus 1958 é, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuidigh go mór le feirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh sa bhliain 2002 é.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch Mhín na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh é idir 1954 agus 1958, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuaigh chun tairbhe d'fheirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh é sa bhliain 2002.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch Mhín na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh é idir 1954 agus 1958, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuaigh chun tairbhe d'fheirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh é sa bhliain 2002.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch Mhín na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh é idir 1954 agus 1958, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuaigh chun tairbhe d'fheirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh é sa bhliain 2002.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch Mhín na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh é idir 1954 agus 1958, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuaigh chun tairbhe d'fheirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh é sa bhliain 2002.
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One of two lavish brochures issued in 1930 by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd., one of the giants of the UK's electrical manufacturing industry, to promote their works in regard to railway electrification. One brochure considers the company's work on Overseas railways, the other the equipment supplied for UK railway electrification schemes. Both have rather charming pastel sketches for the cover artwork that is sadly unattributed. This for, overseas railways, shows a mighty locomotive under suitably placed palm trees.
The company had its origins in the British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company formed in 1899 as a subsidiary of the American Westinghouse concern. The new works on the Trafford Park industrial estate in Manchester were opened in 1902. In 1917, to separate the company from American control, the concern was jointly purchased by the Birmingham based Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (under the control of Dudley Docker) and Vickers Ltd., the armaments and shipbuilding concern. In 1919 further alterations to the company's structure took place and it became the Metropolitan-Vickers Co. Ltd. In 1928 they merged with rival British Thomson-Houston, another large concern with rival American origins to Westinghouse, and in 1929 they formed part of the new Associated Electrical Industries group. The intention of AEI to rationalise their electrical businesses never really occurred and indeed M-V and BT-H carried on much as if before, competing against each other.
Metropolitan-Vickers had quite a footing in export markets, albeit in countries that could be considered under the British sphere of imterest; this was the result of the large international cartels that usually carved up such business. So, M-V feature in supplying equipment to South African Railways, The Bombay, Baroda & Central Indian Railway, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway in India, and in Australia, the New South Wales Government Railways along with the Victorian Government Railways. The latter were busy electrifying the suburban lines in Sydney and Melbourne respectively.
M-V also supplied several European customers including the Czechoslovakian State Railways, the Netherlands Railways, the Italian State Railways, the 'railways of the USSR', and the Spanish Railways. One surprisingly, at first sight, large group of concerns supplied are in South America, notably in Argentina and Brazil. In the former country the Buenos Aires Western Railway and the Central Argentine Railway appear and in the latter, Oeste de Minas Railway and Paulista Railway are described. In the case of Argentina it is worth recalling the importance of British based financing and control of several of the country's railways and so it is not surprising that British companies were chosen to supply materials. The brochure also mentions work for the Japanese Government Railways and the Thamshavn - Lokken Railway in Norway.
It's a Special Move Sunday feature on the southwest Transcon with this behemoth of a GE generator being pulled by the CSXT 52. This train is billed out of Smithboro, IL and is going to Needles, CA to be unloaded and trucked to its final destination. The almost 30 year old YN2 painted leader is about to pass a yellow signal and will be stopping in Holbrook to allow 2 more EB trains to pass them before crossing over to M1 for some clearance issues ahead.
Later today and after the crew change in Winslow, this unit would go belly up at Flagstaff with an inoperative brake bail off valve that was report yesterday, but Mechanical said "Send It!"
Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh idir 1954 agus 1958 é, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuidigh go mór le feirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh sa bhliain 2002 é.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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A rather fine brochure of leaflets on the subject of "how to get the best from your electrical equipment" issued by that great Birmingham concern of Jospeh Lucas whose vast works on the road out towards Handsworth through Hockley dominated my bus rides to and from home in Hamstead in the 1960s. Lucas was typical of the companies that sprang up in the Midlands to support the growth of the car and commercial vehicle industries. These leaflets also show that by this date the company also had interests in the associated brands of CAV (C A Vandervell of Acton, London) and Rotax.
They aren't dated but the style and langauge is that of the 1930s and they are a reminder of the days when much day to day car maintenance was not only required but also undertaken at home by Father in the garage! That said, nicely, the leaflets also show some checks being carried out by women motorists.
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.
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Thought it would be fun to put a 'tax button" on my simple calculator. Boy that would be nice if all you had to do was click on the tax button and your taxes would be done.
One of two lavish brochures issued in 1930 by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd., one of the giants of the UK's electrical manufacturing industry, to promote their works in regard to railway electrification. One brochure considers the company's work on Overseas railways, the other the equipment supplied for UK railway electrification schemes. Both have rather charming pastel sketches for the cover artwork that is sadly unattributed. This, for British Railways, shows what looks like a Southern Railway EMU amidst happy suburbia with a businessman clenching his pipe between his teeth, and trendily dressed ladies no doubt out shopping by 'fast electric'.
The company had its origins in the British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company formed in 1899 as a subsidiary of the American Westinghouse concern. The new works on the Trafford Park industrial estate in Manchester were opened in 1902. In 1917, to separate the company from American control, the concern was jointly purchased by the Birmingham based Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (under the control of Dudley Docker) and Vickers Ltd., the armaments and shipbuilding concern. In 1919 further alterations to the company's structure took place and it became the Metropolitan-Vickers Co. Ltd. In 1928 they merged with rival British Thomson-Houston, another large concern with rival American origins to Westinghouse, and in 1929 they formed part of the new Associated Electrical Industries group. The intention of AEI to rationalise their electrical businesses never really occurred and indeed M-V and BT-H carried on much as if before, competing against each other.
The brochure covering works in the UK for British railways in general, rather than the later nationalised concern, also includes a fine folding map showing the electrified railways in the London area upon which M-V equipment is in use. This of course includes the Meropolitan Railway, the Underground Electric Railways of London and the Southern Railway. The latter were big customers of both M-V and English Electric and were in the midst of not only extending the former LSWR third rail system but also convering the former LB&SCR 'overhead' electrics to third rail.
Other concerns covered are the London MIdland & Scottish Railway's Liverpool & Southport lines, the Heysham, Morecambe and Lancaster line and the London Suburban or 'Watford DC' lines. For the London & North Eastern Railway the Tyneside suburban system and the isolated Shildon & Newport appears. Sad truth is that the Southern and Underground aside, the main line companies were at the time hard pressed to fund major electrification schemes. It would take Government grant aid to even tentatively start the process of further 1500v DC overhead electrification (the 'chosen' standard') in the late 1930s and with further wartime delays it would be left to British Railways in the 1950s to even complete the schemes in hand. This was then followed by the shift from 1500v DC to 25kv AC.
The products described range from generating and transformer equipment, cabling and traction equipment from motors to entire locomotives or multiple unit sets. They even mention the fact that some of the units are, of course, equipped with M-V's own 'Cosmos' lamps!
Two independent 'railways' bring up the list; the Mersey Railway, that electrified its under-Mersey tunnel in 1903 and the newly electrified Mumbles Railway that had introduced double deck electric trams in 1928.
In around 1951 Revo of Tipton, one of GEC's rivals in the street lighting market, manufactured a stylish column and vertical fluorescent lantern for the City of Birmingham and this was made available as the "Festival" in the Revo catalogue. A special version of the 'Festival' was later manufactured to special designs for Cambridge - these being known as "Richardson's Candles". GEC seems to have decided that a similar lantern woudl make a suitable addition to their range and the 1951 catalogue includes this - the 'Vertical "Four-Eighty" - so named as it came equipped with four 80w Osram tubes. One location I do recall these being used was George St in Edinburgh, where they mounted in pairs on double brackets carried a-top of the old centre street tram overhead poles.
Seo stáisiún na mónadh, nó 'an turf-burning' mar a b'fhearr aithne air. Sheas sé ar bhruach Loch na Cuinge i nGaoth Dobhair. Tógadh idir 1954 agus 1958 é, ceann de cheithre cinn ar chósta thiar na hÉireann sna Caogaidí. Bhí na cinn eile sa Scríb i gCo. na Gaillimhe, Sráid na Cathrach i gCo. An Chláir agus Cathair Saidhbhín i gCo. Chiarraí. Dódh suas le 30,000 tonna mónadh sa bhliain nuair a bhí an stáisiún i mbarr a réime, rud a chuidigh go mór le feirmeoirí an cheantair. Druideadh an stáisiún i 1996 agus leagadh go talamh sa bhliain 2002 é.
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This is the Electricity Supply Board peat-powered generating station in Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Donegal, situated on the banks of Loch na Cuinge. Construction began in 1954 and the station was commissioned in 1958. It was one of four built on the west coast of Ireland in the 1950s. The others were in Scríb, Co. Galway, Miltown Malbay in Co. Clare and Cahersiveen in Co. Kerry. Around 30,000 tons of turf was burned annually when the station was at its peak. This was a much-needed source of additional income for subsistance farmers in the area. The station finally closed in 1996 and was demolished in 2002.
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A name that I was, as a child, very familiar with as we had family who worked for EE in Preston, Lancashire, and in those days it was a household name. It was for the family as they lived in an English Electric company house and so every switch and domestic appliance had that "EE" symbol on it!
English Electric Co Ltd was formed in 1919 by the amalgamation of several UK electrical manufacturers and, a little like their bigger rival GEC, they did make almost the whole range of things electrical from appliances to generating equipment. That said their real roots were in the heavy end of the business and that suffered in the various depressions of the 1920s to the extent that by the end of the decade they were in a sorry state. By 1930 a rescue package, effectively backed by US Westinghouse interests, saved the company and under new management, along with serious pruning, EE regained some stability. As this sign testifies, they provided much of the electrical equipment for railway electrifcation as this was salvaged from a London Underground sub-station on the Northern line from the 1939/40 extensions.
In later years, EE became involved in newer technologies such as aircraft construction and computers. In 1960 the aircraft division became part of the new British Aircraft Corporation, as part of government 'backed' rationalisation plans, and in 1967 computers went to the new ICL. Then in 1968, again under government pressure, EE became part of the new company formed around their old arch rivals GEC who had the previous year acquired the third of the big three, AEI.
Spotted this electrical testing equipment on the pavement, wired up to a light fixture outside the local church, but to my geek eyes it looked a bit like one of the ghost traps the Ghostbusters use! Perhaps they were clearing some spooks out of the church!
From the 1951 Festival of Britain handbook an advert for Crompton Parkinson's lamp bulbs against the backdrop of the South Bank's buildings. Crompton Parkinson dated from 1927 when Crompton's of Chelmsford, one of the pioneers of the UK's electrical industry and founded in 1878, was acquired by the established Leeds based company of Parkinson. The company made a wide range of products and their lamps were made in the works at Guiseley, alongside their traction motors. Taken over by Hawker Siddeley in 1968 all their original plants are now gone although the trademark name is still in existence.
A brochure issued by the then might Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Limited, part of AEI, and based at the massive Trafford Park works in Manchester. It is written by Ir. S S Koldijk, the chief engineer of the Rotterdamse Electrische Tramways and concerns the batch of 36 trailers and 34 motor cars that were constructed as post-WW2 replacements for older and war damaged rolling stock for the undertaking. It appears that two experimental motor-cars were ordered first and that originally all 70 cars of the order, placed with Koninklijke Fabrieken van Meubelem en Spoorweg-materieel NV Allen & Co, were to be trailers, this being amended as described. The orders were complicated by post-war shortages and so various components were sourced from many suppliers. This included the 36 sets of electrical equipment ordered from M-V with others being sourced from N.V. Electrotechnische Industrie v/h Willem Smit, Slikkerveer.
The eighteen pages of the brochure give great technical detail as to the manufacturing, construction and performance of these units along with images of car 102. Other manufacturers mentioned include Laycock Engineering of Sheffield, John Baker & Bessemer Ltd, Rotherham and David Brown of Huddersfield all then in West Yorkshire. The Dutch rubber concern of Vredesteyn is mentioned along with L Dikkers of Henglo and wiring by Croon & Co of Rotterdam.
From a loose-leaf brochure set issued by the famous electrical and components firm based in Birmingham, Jospeph Lucas, in around 1935. The various leaflets describe the main items of electrical equipment found in cars from batteries to starters and lights and how best to maintain them - with lots of hints on DIY as was common with motor vehicles at the time. Lucas had grown tobe a vital part of the supply chain as the Birmingham and West Midlands automotive industries grew int he first decades of the 2oth Century and they in turn had sprung from the bicycle manufacting companies based here. Lucas had started supplying bike components before diversifying into automobile electrics.
Seveeral of the leaflets have marvellous scraperboard illustrations, sadly anonymous, that are very period! Here a lady driver, suitably attired in gloves, makes to start the motor. The wee cartoon at the top shows the same component giving the car a good shove to get going!
From a loose-leaf brochure set issued by the famous electrical and components firm based in Birmingham, Jospeph Lucas, in around 1935. The various leaflets describe the main items of electrical equipment found in cars from batteries to starters and lights and how best to maintain them - with lots of hints on DIY as was common with motor vehicles at the time. Lucas had grown tobe a vital part of the supply chain as the Birmingham and West Midlands automotive industries grew int he first decades of the 2oth Century and they in turn had sprung from the bicycle manufacting companies based here. Lucas had started supplying bike components before diversifying into automobile electrics.
Several of the leaflets have marvellous scraperboard illustrations, sadly anonymous, that are very period! This for "Lamps", one of Lucas's specialities, shows a marvellous night view through the windscreen.
The British Insulated Cables Ltd, based at Prescot in Lancashire, were one of several UK cable and electrical equipment manufacturers who served the more specialist market for electric traction - primarily trams but also, at the time of this catalogue, the growing market for 'railless traction' better known as trolleybuses. This catalogue details the many components available for overhead line construction and includes cable ears, hangers, insulators and equipment for junctions such as frogs.
The company had its origins in the 1890 formation of the British Insulated Wire Company whose founders included the brilliant electrical engineer Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti. The name was changed to British Insulated & Helsby Cables following a merger in 1902; the Helsby was dropped in 1925. In 1945 they merged with Callender's to form BICC.
The photos show, interestingly, the 'newer' world of railless or trolleybus overhead and this looks to be at the 'older' standard of 1' 6" separation between the positive and negative wires that 'railless' required - there being no 'rail' for earth return. The second photo is, I think, of the same system that would have been local to Prescot - that of St. Helens. The vehicle seen being posed, along with the crew, is DJ 3245 - this being a 1927 Garrett single deck chassis with Ransomes bodywork. It is seen carrying fleet number 103, having been renumbered thus in 1929 and a year before withdrawal in 1938 it received fleet number 161.
I love the various people standing watching the photographer capture the scene - including the small child at far right, leaning on the overhead pole!
Starting to dismantle a 90kW inverter drive. It's big, heavy, and in the way. I had it on a dolly to move it but it's been scrapped by the client and will have to be parted-out for spares. Behind is an old, but good slot machine which was given to me for spares. I should part that out too.
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Brisbane, Queensland.
Description: Business premises of A. G. Jackson, Electrical Engineer, a double fronted, two story building with iron awning and decorative lacework.
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The Panj river serves as much of the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. In this photo, Tajikistan is on the right, and Afghanistan is on the left side of the river. Photo taken on March 25, 2014 in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, Tajikistan.
From the Locomotive Magazine of April 1952 an advert issued by British Railways extolling their many and varied freight services, a sector that was at the time under continued pressure from newly 'liberated' road transport. This advert contrasts the ability to move heavy bulk loads alongside the most delicate of electrical equipment, a point pushed home by the appearance if not one but two electric lamp bulbs!
In fact the scraperboard illustration, a medium much favoured by advertisers at the time, is repeated reversed as can be made out from the artist/designer's initials "GME" being reversed on the right hand illustration.
Check my Flickr Photostream to also see trials 2 (black and white) and 3 (Aged Photo treatment) for comparison. There was nowhere near enough dynamic range in a single exposure, so I bracketed 5 exposures. I pre-processed for color adjustment in Lightroom, transferred to Photomatix and tried to pick the most realistic HDR mode and make adjustments, then post-processed the result in Lightroom again to get the best possible result. It was hard to balance the blue light coming in through the windows and the warm tones from the overhead incandescent lights. Not satisfied with the colors in this result, I then tried a black and white conversion in that middle Photomatix step.