Newport Power Station
From Graces Guide
The initial installation of plant at the Llanarth Street site in 1895 comprised horizontal compound engines coupled by ropes to Hall dynamos. The plant had a rating of 350 kW. [1]
Babcock and Wilcox boilers. The three engines were of the 'E. P. Allis type', made by Markham and Co [2]
1921 Advert: 'The Newport Corporation Offer for Disposal One 500 K.W. Set. The Engine is of the cross-compound, slow-speed, reciprocating type built by Markham and Co. (Limited), Chesterfield. The Generator is a direct-current machine, compound-wound, voltage 460-500.' [3]
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