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LONDON POWER STATION THAMES-SIDE LOCATION (Special Correspondent.) / inam) LONDON. Dec. 10. Workmen this week began clearing Ihe site for Britain’s most concentrated electric-power station on the ThamesSi T C he C s a tatfo o n Pl iUiiich is to cost £14,000,ono will have an output of 315.000 kilownt’ts and will burn 12.000 tons of coal weekly A fleet of colliers each with o Am city of 8000 tons, will be purchased to bring the output of some <0 collieries to Poplar to the supply St The" first turbine will be in operation JoctSw. sM '°“ '’VhTSaUOT will ttaiid si i point, on ,1 Thames bank where the Virginia TfiprQ called for America In 1606. A hilflet commemorating their departure tJ fti e L C p™™ry e d in the power station.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 11 December 1946, Page 5
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