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way in which the public money had been spent. At the con- 
clusion of the visit, Mr. Christie presented each member with a 
copy of the illustrated description of the works, issued in the first 
place for the opening ceremony by the Right Hon. John Burns. 
In the engine room are three generators of 1,800 kilo-watts 
each, of the latest turbine-driven type. High-tension alternating 
three-phase current is generated by these machines at 8,000 
volts, and transmitted through five trunk mains to the North 
Road Works, 42 miles away, where a large sub-station has been 
erected as an anuexe to the old generating station. Here the 
high-tension alternating current is transformed down to low- 
tension continuous current, and is distributed for lighting, 
power, and traction, through the old system of mains. 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20ru, 1906. 
FALMER WATERWORKS PUMPING 
MACHINERY. 
Another very interesting and instructive little outing 
was enjoyed by the members, when, through the courtesy 
of the Waterworks Committee of the Brighton Town Council 
and Mr. J. Johnston, the Waterworks Engineer, they paid a 
visit to the new pumping station at Falmer. The party, 
numbering between 40 and 50, arrived at the works shortly after 
three o’clock, and were received by Mr A. Stone, the Engineer 
in charge of the station, who conducted them over the premises 
and explained the working of the machinery. The clean and 
neat appearance of the whole place, even the coal store and 
boiler house, was particularly noticeable, everything—floors, 
walls, engines, and boilers—were as spick and span as a man-o’- 
war, and the admirable order in which everything was kept was 
very favourably commented upon by the visitors. The party 
was first shewn the engine-house, with its two sets of inverted 
triple-expansion direct-acting steam engines (only one of which 
was at work), which drive the six deep well pumps which raise 
the water from the two wells and deliver it into the large 
reservoir outside, whence it is sent by the six force pumps into 
the mains to the various reservoirs in Brighton. 
A very ingenious little engine, called a “ barring engine,” 
for setting in motion the huge flywheel of each set of pumps 
was shewn at work and the Westinghouse air-charger for filling 
the great air vessels used to equalize the pressure in the mains, 
the auxiliary feed pump, which also works the travelling overhead 
crane, and the electric recorder shewing the depth of water in 
