POWER FOR LONDON
EXTENSIONS OF PLANT
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 12th January. An order, has been placed for a turbo-generating unit of 140,000 horsepower for. the, new super power station at Battersea which will be opened next summer. This unit is tho largest ordered in Great Britain, and will be one of the largest in the world. , Extensions of the 200,000 horse-power Barking super power station have been completed, rendering it the greatest power station, in the British Empire, with a total capacity of 530,000 horsepower. Those' two stations, Battersea and Barking, .on completion of the present contract will have installed 850,000 horse-power, bringing the total of all public generating stations serving London up to 2,600,000 horse-power.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 11
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117POWER FOR LONDON Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 11
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