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1934 A sixteen-element electromagnetic oscillograph was made for the company by [[Metropolitan-Vickers]]. | 1934 A sixteen-element electromagnetic oscillograph was made for the company by [[Metropolitan-Vickers]]. | ||
1934 The 3 switchgear manufacturing companies in the [[AEI]] group - [[BTH]], [[Ferguson Pailin]] and [[Metropolitan-Vickers|Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co]] were jointly erecting a high power testing plant to handle rupture tests on the largest types of switches<ref> The Times, Apr 13, 1934</ref>. It was initially equipped with a generator with a caapacity of 1500 MVA. The stator weighed 80 tons and was spring-mounted. 1200 HP were required to get the generator up to speed in 15 minutes, 300 HP for light running, and it took 30 minutes to run down. | 1934 The 3 switchgear manufacturing companies in the [[AEI]] group - [[BTH]], [[Ferguson Pailin]] and [[Metropolitan-Vickers|Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co]] were jointly erecting a high power testing plant to handle rupture tests on the largest types of switches<ref> The Times, Apr 13, 1934</ref>. It was initially equipped with a generator with a caapacity of 1500 MVA. The stator weighed 80 tons and was spring-mounted. 1200 HP were required to get the generator up to speed in 15 minutes, 300 HP for light running, and it took 30 minutes to run down.<ref>'B.T.H. Reminiscences - Sixty Years of Progress' compiled by H. A. Price-Hughes, BTH, 1946, p.75</ref> | ||
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of Trafford Park, Manchester.
Conducted switchgear-testing programme for the constituent firms (presumably part of AEI).
1934 A sixteen-element electromagnetic oscillograph was made for the company by Metropolitan-Vickers.
1934 The 3 switchgear manufacturing companies in the AEI group - BTH, Ferguson Pailin and Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co were jointly erecting a high power testing plant to handle rupture tests on the largest types of switches[1]. It was initially equipped with a generator with a caapacity of 1500 MVA. The stator weighed 80 tons and was spring-mounted. 1200 HP were required to get the generator up to speed in 15 minutes, 300 HP for light running, and it took 30 minutes to run down.[2]