ELECTRICAL ORGANISATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1982, 27 May 1919, Page 4

ELECTRICAL ORGANISATION.

There is much discussion in Great Britain of super-stations —• that is to say, of electric generating plants larger than anything yet installed, and supplying current in unlimited quantities to electric supply undertakings, railways, steel works, textile mills, and other large users over a very wide area. Electric supply is, in fact, being treated on a national basis. Enterprise on that scale implies manufacturing firms capable of turning out steam turbines of 50,000 kilowatts each, and constructing transformers, cables, and switch gear for transmission of electric power at very high voltage. So enormous has been the demand for electric power and electrical plant of every description (hat the war has been a powerful stimulus to productive work'. Incidentally, British electrical manufacturers have been- reorganising themselves into larger groups, each working along certain definite lines, and capable of undertaking the manufacture of all types of powerstation plant, cables and accessories, the most ambitious schemes of railway electrification, complete contracts for hydro-electric and ether power schemes, and for the electrical operation of collieries, textile mills, and so on. The electric cable makers of Great Britain, who set the standard of excellence in electrical transmission of power, have greatly developed their output during the Avar. In addition to those large combinations, there are many strong firms specialising in various types of electrical plant and apparatus, and continuously improving such machines, as steam, gas and oil engines, electric motors, transformers and instruments, switch gear, heating and cooking apparatus. Ever-increasing attention is also being given to research both by individual electric firms and by the industry generally, in association with the Institute of Electrical Engineers and other scientific bodies.