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Heavy Electrical Engineering.
Generating Plant, Mining gear, Motors & control gear, Switchgear,
Traction equipment, Transformers.Light Electrical Engineering.
Automation & computation, Heating & welding, Industrial Radio,
Instrumentation, Radar & electronics, Railway signalling, Scientific
& x-ray apparatus.Mechanical Engineering.
Condensers & heat exchangers, Marine propulsion equipment,
Reduction gearing, Gas and Steam Turbines.Nuclear Engineering.
Nuclear power plant.
Working with Electrical and Electronics Equipment.
An Electronics Engineer working in the Electronics Section
using a Cossor Model 1035 Oscilloscope.
The Mechanical Department.
A view of the Main Mechanical Aisle.
Here, Metro-Vick Turbines were constructed.
What did a turbine-generator look like?
Metropolitan-Vickers built the turbine-generator installed at Barton Power Station in 1935. The turbine-generator set at Barton Power Station had the largest rating at that time. I remember going on a guided tour of the station, and observing that the set was still
It had a rating of 71,428 kVA, at a speed of 1500 r.p.m and a generated output of 33kV.
painted with the original 'MV Green' paint. (Everything at Metro's was painted green).
Barton Power Station was situated near to Barton Swing Bridge at Patricroft, Barton upon Irwell.
Barton Bridge (still well used today), enables transport to cross over the Manchester Ship Canal.
Barton Power Station has for some time been de-commissioned, and a B & Q superstore is currently
being built on the site and is expected to be opened in the near future.
Pasir Pan Jang Power Station, Singapore.
Metro-Vick built five sets each rated at 31,250 kVA, running at
a speed of 3000 r.p.m. generating an output voltage of 22kV.
