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fast one. Then when Block Rock www.ranched he sent his mount out in front, and began to establich a lead When he was about four lengths in front at the village, an- othog pony came away from the rest
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When Sir Charles Paysone con- structed his original steam turbine in 1884 he conferred on the electrical industry the possibility of enormous expansion: The old steam, angino of Watt, with its sylinders, and pistons, had reached a limit of a
pose tant when the straight was reached it had not only caught up with Local Option, but was draws, ing in front This was Messrs. Dyor and Beith's Grey Moro, ridden by Lieut. Comdr. Thompson and it was still in front when the Distanco Post was reached, being
There was a time-and that not about a yard ahead of Local Op lang ago when the sight of a new tion. Joakeyabip told in the 'and and although both ponies were very building going up aroused only an game, Mr. Maitland drove Local idle inborest among Londoners, Option to victory, getting the verwrites the building correspondent of diat by a short hand, to the great London journal. It was the ralief of the crowd which had hack-architects' fault; they never gave ed Local Option heavily to win.
us anything to be seriously interest SOME DISAPPOINTMENTS-cd in, We knew that when the
AND SITTING BULL, Yat one more example of how training times can deceive. In 1998 Mr. Dyanatya Derby candidato, Hair Apparent did his exercises o Our interest has been forcibly, kw. the turbine has the field to well in the preparatory stages that awakened by a series of archit itself. he was well fancied for the Derby.
few thousands of horsepower, a limit imposed by mechanical cons hoardings and scaffolding were vo- siderations. In the modern power- "moved all we should see was just an-station it ia the turbine, either.
other edition of old, dull ideas
But it is not so now.
stean or hydro, that is to be found. For all units of more than 5,000|
To any engineer conversant with power-station practice the statement that without the steam turbine the electrical supply industry as we know it to-day could not exist is n Every more truism. To furnish electric power at the rate at, which it is now consumed by large communities involves the existence of generating stations with capacities ranging up to several hundreds of thousands of kilowatts. There are already several steam turbines of over 150,000 kw. capacity sach, and, of course, no reciprocating steam or oil engine
The pony started in the Trial Plate,tural shocks. British architects, se potential Derby Winners gen-moved by American and Continental erally do, but could not even got example, have broken away from a place. So disappointing was his Victorian traditions and set up performance that he was not even sent to the post on Derby Day, buildings which attempt to serve atable companion in Young the spirit of the new age, Pretender carrying Mr. Dynasty's important new erection now is a colours, and finishing second behind bold experiment in modernity, the Sitting Bull Mention of Sitting Bull also recalls an interesting faot, chief note of which is the effort to In 1927 Mr. Dunbar won the Derby find the appropriate beauty for its with Elliot. Bay, an outstanding pony, The following year, he was
particular utility... again expected to win, the training Lately we have been watching the performances of some of his can-rapid growth of another great ad- didates being very encouraging.dition to our public buildings Monterey Bay was expected to carry is colours, but the pony Unilever House, which bends into was besten out of place in the Now Bridge-atrect at the Blackcould be constructed that would Madden Stakes that year and did friars end of the Enbankmont, not start at all in the Derby. Sit- The preliminary labour of ex- ting Bull and Bakers Bay were sont cavation we could not watch; but out sad the former wan handsome that was stupendnus, for the subsoil ly. The winner of the Trial Plate proved to be not the real London What your was Mesara, Hynes andalay, but a softer kind deposited Mackie's Peck, but although it was it is supposed, some 2000 years after ridden by Mr. Heard, it could not the glacial period, and practically got a place in the Derby. Many of those who watched the training that your failed to see a Derby winner in Sitting Bull. Many thought he was too much of a "climber and those who have aden Sitting Bull gallop will agree that the pony had A peculiar stride.
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unknown sisewhere. It obliged the foundations to be laid at a great depth, down among the old wooden piles that ence supported the banks
approach auch a size.
Powerful and Compact,
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steam turbine generates, it is ex- In spite of the immense power the
ceedingly compact. There is a great saving of space and therefore of the capital cost of an installation. United Kingdom turbines" are noted
of the Thames. Then the course of for this economy. A striking ex the old Fleet River was found to ample is furnished by the history have shiftedtran unexpectedly of the Lots Boad power-station, across the middle of the site.
Utility-With-Beauty.
which supplies current for the Underground railways of London..
ance with what was considered the best practice at the time. At the last moment the plan to have re- oiprocating engines was changed and
However, all those difficulties. This station was designed in 1001 further note of beauty will be in- troduced when the statuary groups the general contractora, Messra. units of 5,500 kw. sach, in accord were overcome; and already, though to contain 10 reciprocating engine by Mr. Rod Dick are installed, one Holland and Hannen and Cubitts, at each corner. (Mr. Tait and Mr.Ltd only started raising the wall Dick are brother Scots and old Eve months ago, the external struc friends; Dick's bust of Tait was a ture is up nud the effect can be much-praised feature of a recent judgod. Royal Academy.) photographs of the groups. They will certainly enhance Mr. Dickultra-modern about it, for the near-turbines were installed. It is inter
hese of St. Paul's Cathedral and esting to note that by the end of high repute. Each group shows a horse, restrained, in the one group, Somerset House demands a certain 1931 by a female figure on each side, and respectful conformity. The style is in the other group by male figurea netually English Renaissance; The modelling corresponds in its long curved façade relieved by a plant on exactly the same foor purity of line and form with the acrieus of tall Ionic columus. But space as was originally allotted to classic suggestion of the facade, the modern note of utility-with-
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The output per square foot of) mality that disconcorts us from the The “utility of Unilever Houss engine-room area has been increas walia of some modory" buildingasis to give office room on its eighted, therefore, from less than 1.69 they are as serenely beautiful as floors to the directors and staffs, w. to over 5.79 kw. Furthermore, Spenserian verse. Their installa numbering about 3500, of all the tion will be an artistic event.. companies allied with Lever the steam for the whole of this
Early this summer Unilever Brothers. But consider the situa- extra power has been obtained with House is expected to be ready for tion of the building. It stands on
out increasing the dimensions of opupation. It will constitute one one of London's noisiest traffe jure the boiler house, awing partly to of the quickest building, perform-tions.
the higher efficiency of the modern anges on regard. Evan Now York Unilover House is the last United Kingdom turbines and to has senrcely equalled its speed. word in antinoise buildings," I was the better boilers (also the United Assured by Mr. Tom Tait, partner Kingdom manufacture), and higher in Sir John Burnet, Tait and steam pressure. Other less, well- Lorne, who, with Mr. J. Lomax | known stations in the London area Simpson, Are the architects respon- give even more impressive illustra sible. You will notice that the tions of space economy in relation front of the base storey, entered to power, from the Embankment level, is 1 solid block of masonry: 50 feet high. | without a single window, and with
no doors except at the far ends. But, after all, it is economy in This has two objects. It keeps out operation by which modern, machi the din of traffic from the clerks on nery standa or falls. Here the the ground floor, and acts as an United Kingdom-built turbine comes anti-noise buffer for all the other well out of this test. Not only in floors,"
the turbine inherently more efficient But what about light?" I than the reciprocating steam on- asked
Egine (or for the matter of that, the This base storey," anid Mr. internal combustion engine), but Tait, is set forward twelve feet from the nature of its construction from the main structure and roofed it can utilise steam expanding with glass Another noise protecthrough far greater ranges of pres- tion is the acoustic plaster with sure and temperature. There are which all the front rooms are treatmeny United Kingdom turbines ed. The alevators will be silent working with a steams pressure of running. The corridors will be 7,500 lbs. per square inch, while floored with cork' and rubber. }} steam temperatures up to 450 de- grees C., "and vaeus of 29 inches The flat roof in two thicknesses, and over are quite common. The practically a double concrete root record for pressure and temperature with an air space between is en of a turbine in general use in, at Fintaresting novelty A drawback of the moment, Held by a Parsons the usual flat roof is that it allows turbine built for the Dunston power- snow nad water to lie on it in win station. This has a heat aquamp ter, which chilla the temperature of tion of, only 9,280 British thermal the building The air space between white, or an overall thermal the two thickapsses obviates this:
efficiency of 38.8 per cent. But this récord will probably noon, be, sur- passed, w
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