Anglo-French Exhibition. THE LIGHTING.

Progress, Volume III, Issue 4, 1 February 1908, Page 126

Anglo-French Exhibition. THE LIGHTING.

The organisers of the Anglo-French Exhibition at Shepherd's Bush have conceded the electric lighting of the exhibition to French houses. Now, the Exhibition covers 140 acres ; the buildings comprise the Royal Pavilion, the Garden Club, the Palace Restaurant, and the huge machinery court ; while in addition there are the main British and French sections. There are extensive gardens , and the colonial section a djoins the stadium in which quadrennial Olympic games are to be held. This vast area will be capable of seating 68,000 persons, every one of whom will have a good view of the games. There is a running track, three laps to the mile, already laid down, and a cycling track, two-and-three-quarter lap to the mile, in course of construction, and when a football match is being played, the visitors were informed that as many as 150,000 persons will be able to witness the play. A bath 1000 metres in length has been contructed in which swimming competitions will take place. Altogether there will be twenty palaces, 400 ft. long by 70 ft. wide ; and it may be added that the great machinery hall will contain over 250,000 ft. of space. To have secured the contract for the electric lighting of such a vast exhibition is very suggestive of the up-to-date superiority of the method of the French electricians.

For the past two and a half years two 500 k.w. vertical turbines have been in operation at Christchurch power house, and the total consumption of oil for that period was 100 gallons, the oil being returned to the supply tanks from time to time. This 100 gallons has now been drawn off and used for lubricating tramway axles, and the total loss of oil for the above-mentioned period has worked out at only 20 psr cent. Repairs on these machines have also proved remarkably small, amounting to the mere replacement of three white metal bearings having an average life of twelve months, and which were re-metalled at a cost of £5,