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GREAT GENERATING STATIONS Aust. and N.Z. Cable] Rugby, Jan. 12 An order has been placed for a turbo-generating- unit of .149,000 horse-power for the new super power station at Battersea, which will he opened nex* summer. This unit is the largest •ordered in Great Britain and will be one of the largest in the world. Extensions of (lie 200,000 horsepower Barking super power power station have been completed, rendering it the* greatest power st at ion- ill the British Empire with a total capacity of •>>o,ooo horse-power. These two stations, Battersea and Barking, on completion of the present contract will have installed 850,000 horse-power, bringing- tlie total of all public generating stations serving London up to 2,000,000 horsepower. .
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3931, 14 January 1933, Page 7
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