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welded construction, has an internal dia­

m eter of 5 ft. 6 in., is 5 in. thick, and each end of th e drum will accommodate a single down-comer of a diam eter to perm it full circulation' of tho boiler w ater to the furnace walls and heaters. Provision is also made for suitable branches for connection of an electrically-driven steam pum p to bo fitted, should it be required for circulating steam through superheater tubes when raising steam or laying off th e boiler. To reduce embodied and a continuous blow-down system will be installed.

Accounts of the Leicester undertaking for year ending March 31 show an income

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A n n u a l R e p o r t o f t h e E l e c t r i c i t y S u p p l y B o a r d

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ably above the average made it while, the Liffey hydro-electric station pro­

duced 48 million units. An output of 205 million units from the steam plant at D ublin, however, was only attained under considerable difficulties because of tho in­

ferior quality of coal delivered. Tho because of the favourable water conditions.

The percentage increase for all sales was

Work for a considerable reinforcement of the Board’s generating plant is a t generating set has already been installed, and a dam is being built a t Loixlip, where a rural electrification project of consider­

able scope. Progress w as made in deter­

mining the sim plest possible design of rural supply network, fixing rates of charge, training staff and organising area in vesti­

gation and developm ent. The schem e w ill

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Manchester office, have relinquished their duties recently and have been succeeded, subsequently combined those duties with th e managership of m otor sales departm ent.

In 1926 he was made district m anager of service from 1914-1919) gained experience in various commercial departm ents of the firm. In 1925 he w ent to th e com pany’s Glasgow office and remained in Scotland until 1946, when he was appointed assistant manager a t Newcastle. During th e last war Mr. Crawford served for a time as a

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Captain, R .A ., with the 51st Highland Divi­

sion, an d subsequently became a Staff Lieutenant-Colonel in the Glasgow Home Guard. He is a member of the

North-East-MR. A. J. CRAWFORD MR. J. B. HARTLEY

Coast Institution of Engineers and Ship­

builders and of the A.A1.E.AI.E. Air. J . B. was appointed assistant manager in 1946.

O R. JO SE F W ER N ER BONDI has been appointed a director of British Oil Engines

(Export) L td.

ADD: J . L. GILL, present chairman of Wallasey Electricity Committee, has been nom inated by the W allasey A ll-Party Selec­

Lise Meitner, Dr. Frisch m ade the first calculation of the energy released during the fission of uranium . He worked on Allied atomic energy projects throughout the war and was recently appointed Jack­ officer between th e International Engineer­

ing Co. of San Francisco and tho Irrigation has been appointed assistant consumers’

engineer in the Sheffield electricity depart­

m ent. O ther appointm ents made by the

tion, junior operation shift engineer; Mr.

A. Large, previously junior engineer with the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., L td., and Mr. F. J . Williams, previously assistant control engineer w ith Coventry Corporation, junior assistant engineers. more Conduits, L td., after travelling

through a storm, found a t Tenbury Wells sunshine which lasted throughout the rest of the day. Tho afternoon sports were dom inated by the “ Conduit Crashers ” (industrial electrical departm ent), who also contributed largely to th e evening enter­ Corporation presented them w ith suitably inscribed silver cigarette eases and tho insurance company concerned showed their appreciation by presenting cheques. I t is first assistant mains engineer in succession to 'Mr. T. B. Cole, who retires in Septem ­ ber.

MRS. BEATRICE W RIGHT, M .P. for N orth-E ast Cornwall from 1941 to 1945, who -was introduced by Mr. S. C. H urry, chairman of the school directors, distri­

buted th e diplomas won by students during the year, a t th e London School of Elec­

trical Domestic Science, Basil Street, K nightsbridge, on Ju ly 25. The directors’

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Uroup of the staff oj t r a n k Westerman ( Wholesale), L td ., on the occasion o f their annual outing

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prize for the “ best all-round stu d e n t.”

the recipient of messages of congratulation and good wishes from the various engineer­ secretary to the Electrical Trades Section of th e London Chamber of Commerce from ments, interests and activities is indicated by the fact th a t ho was also a m em ber of th e Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of tho Physical Society of London, a former chairman of the Nomenclature Sub-Committee of the British E lectro­

technical Committee of th e International Electrotechnical Commission, a m em ber of the Engineering Standards Committee, a vice-president of the Institution of Engineers-in-Charge, and a past-president of th e Association of Supervising Electrical Engineers.

“ W ho’s W ho ” gives Mr. T rotter’s recreation as “ Remembering th a t he is no longer a Government official.”

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3 3 7 Commissioners of units generated and fuel consumed a t th e generating stations in

tive figures for average fuel consumption, therm al efficiency and load factor based of electricity (kilowatt-hour) has been taken as the equivalent of 3 412 mean B .T .U .’s.

The load factor has been based on the hours of generation including banking, and an indication is given in every instance of th e rango of running plus banking hours. The load factor has not been calculated, however, where th e hours of generation, excluding banking, during _ tho year were less than the equivalent of stations of railway and transport authori­

ties and certain non-statutory stations had an o u tp u t of 1 548 914 088 units. These stations consumed 1 096 268 tons of coal and coke and 33 tons of fuel oil.

Steam stations (coal, coke or oil-fired boilers) of authorised electricity undertakers with the lowest average fuel consumption and highest thermal efficiency in each group

Lowest average fuel consumption in each group Highest thermal efficiency (approximate) in each group N o .'

0.96 295 950 56.7(A)t*Battersca (London P.. 26.49 295 950 56.7(A) Co.)

1.23 163 980 65.0(A) *Littlebrook (K ent E. P., 24.93 122 000 54.2(B) Co.)

1.05 62 500 73.8(A) ♦Llynfi (S.W alesE.P. Co.) 26.17 62 500 73.8(A) 1.23 32 116 67.6(C) *Castlc Meads (Glouces- 24.97 43 980 39.4(B)

ter Corpn.)

1.75 25 777 39.7(B) *Bonnybridge (Scottish 17.63 52 770 14.8(B) Central E.P. Co.)

1.73 15 340 30.9(A) Letchworth (First Gar­ 16.52 14 220 33.3(A) den City, Ltd.)

1.85 9 635 17.0(B) Cambridge E.S. Co. ... 15.40 8 120 33.8(C) 2.04 3 205 47.0(C) H igh Wycombe Corpn. 14.83 3 205 47.0(C) 2.37 4 366 15.0(B) Penarth U .D .C . 12.46 1 440 32.5(B) 2.84 613 37.5(A) W ick Corpn... 10.72 613 37.5(A)

’ arc exclusive o f any new stations which only came into operation during the year)