THE WESTINGHOUSE COMPANY.

Evening Star, Issue 11683, 15 February 1902, Page 8

THE WESTINGHOUSE COMPANY.

810 CONTRACT SECURED. Tlw New - York correspondent of the Jxincim ‘Daily Express.' under date December 12, telegraphs that Mr Yerkes, of Chicago, has awarded the contract for the electrification, of the Metropoliiai District Railway to the Westing house Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburg. The work, or the greater part of it, will be undertaken at tlie. Compaq's wot I s t Manchester, and it is hoped that a steit may be made within tlie next few week:. A portion of the installation will be put in band at once at, the company's works a-: East Pittsburg. Peiusylvania, in oTwto hasten the construction of the pint. Ti.e electrical generators will he large the i those of the Manhattan Elevated 'lirtevy of Now York, which up to the preset g are the largest in the world. The Manhattan generators are of 6.500 h.p.. while those manufactured for tbe Metro;whiten Hailway will be of over 7,000 h.p. I hey .71.1 bo driven by turbine engines. The generating machines of the Manhattan Elevated Railway weigh 370.0001b apiece, and are each 42ft blah. One of them will give energy equal to that of 500,000 men. The London metropolitan electric generating station will have a. minimum capacity of 7.000 h.p., and a mtiximmn of 100,000 h.p. The work will be begum immediately, and within two years from January 1, 1902. the old smoky tunnels will be whitened, ventilated, and served with an up-to-date service of electric trains. Mr Lyttelton, in bis report, says the manner in which the District Company conducted the preliminary negotiations was most embarrassing to' the Metrojiolitan Company, and fulfv justified the latter in clearing the matter up by arbitration.