Hams Hall Power Station

1929. General View of the Hams Hall 'A' Power Station.

1929. R. A. Chattock, P.P.Inst.E.E., Birmingham, Engineer.

1929. Section through the Station.

1929. Closed Feed System.

1929. Interior of Station.

1929. Circulating Water Pump Motors.

1945. "B" Generating Station.

Belonged to the Birmingham Corporation

1927 Work on construction of the Hams Hall "A" station began. Initially the capacity was 60 megawatts, subsequently increased to 90 megawatts.

1928 Selected for the Central England Electricity Scheme

1929 The station opened

1929 Cooling towers erected by Joshua Henshaw, Limited, of Liverpool, to the designs of L. G. Mouchel and Partners.. Two 30 MW 1500 rpm turbine generators and two 1,876-kw. house sets. Turbines by Fraser and Chalmers, generators by GEC in Birmingham. The house sets have reduction gearing made by the Power Plant Co. The stator air coolers were made by the Premier Cooler and Engineering Co of Shalford.

1938 The experience gained in the design and operation of the Hams Hall "A" and Nechells power stations was used in the design of Hams Hall "B" station, which was begun in 1938

1939 The "A" station was completed with a capacity of 249.45 megawatts.

1942 Hams Hall "B" station opened

1943 The final turbo-alternator was commissioned.

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