HYDRO-ELECTRIC ORDERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 248, 19 October 1922, Page 11

HYDRO-ELECTRIC ORDERS.

FOR BRITISH riSMS. j SEW ZEALAND ]\-?T.\].LATin_N<. . (From Our Ppe-ial Correspondent.) j L"M>"N\ August --i- I The currrn; r.n:r.K-r i>: ine "Hoard f>1 1 Tra(ie Jouriwr y-ito*'.'*' tl" 1 r»llowlng D ote on !n.'.•-.>■•■■■•■ dwlopownt*:••Jγ j5 ?ati-fii'-"r.> to learn that the ■ b.v one of tho leading Briti-h fiurincrrins i-mpanic* in undertakuij .1 now industry, i< receiving j it* reward. 1 "The dfmanl for !.iree-?izcd wator j turbine* o.' pur, :y lir.ti-h manufacture induced Mr*--iv. V!,k.T<, Limited, to, turn their atf'r...'.'!. to ih:-_ hninch i> f • engineering proilu.-tvin. nliich as is; Te ll knonn. owe- it? development i largely in givitzcrlnnd. where the Alpine \ ln ows form a i.ich lovol storage, giving | an alnio-t uni.iiim- supply o£ water throughout tin' year. "Arrangi'mi'i'ls were accordingly made by Messr?. Vi.-ker.- with one of tho lcadin" Swi-s hydraulic companies to 1 enfureVivat tboir .loMgn* should embody 1 the accumulated experience, extending over many year.*, of the bests practice in water power iii-tallation.*. The actual manufacture i- carried on at the Company'? well known works at Barrow-in-Furno*-. the being of the hishe>i ■la." which ajsoeiatod . with Admiralty -tnndard." | It then n.ite.-i with that: "Recently the New Zealand Government- placed with Vioker?, Limited, orders for tv.o Pclton turbines, ■jvhieh are nnv hoing orei-ti-d on site, and followed thie up by entrusting I them with the manufacture of the two j Francis turbines, each of 3.100 h.p., destined to be placed at the Hora Horn j power station on the Waikato River. These machine*, operating -under a -7 | feet head, am of considerable size, and I ■will give immediate employment to j British labour at a time when it is badly needed. I

"The highly efficient technical organisation which Messrs. Vioker* have instituted to deal with all hydro-electric matters includes experienced hydraulic engineers working in collaboration with the electrical staff of the Metropolitan Yickcrs Kloctrical Company, Ltd., which firm recently obtained all the orders for the 6.000 k.v.a. generators and the n>o.ooo volt switchgear for the Maugahao Hyrdo-Electrii* power station in New Zea.ln.nd.