ROBOT LIGHTING PLANT
BRITISH ENGINES THAT CAN CALL FOR HELP Port Macquarie, a small seaside town in New South Wales, is to be lighted by an electrical generating plant ■which runs itself. It is a new British 6 cylinder 240 h.p, engine, two models of which will supply the town’s electric power. POrt Macquarie asked that the plant should be capable of functioning unattended and the necessary mechanism was duly devised. If there is a rise in the temperature of the engines’ lubricating oil, the absentee attendant will hear an alarm. So, if there is any failure of the water cooling system, or overloading, or overspeed; failure of oil pressure, or too rapid drop in the temperature of the water of the cooling system, forth will blare the warning signal And if nobody hears the warning the engines will stop work within five minutes. ■ ■
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23366, 27 June 1941, Page 10
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