ELECTRICAL WORKING COSTS 



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arrangements are made by which either 

 producer can supply either engine if 

 required. There is an electrically- 

 driven blower for starting the gas 

 generators, which enables the work of 

 starting the large engines to be effected 

 by one man, which would otherwise 

 require two. 



The accumulator-room adjoins the 

 engine-house. Power is supplied for 

 an orchestrion in the house by an 

 electric motor, the current being 

 automatically controlled according to 

 the demand. At the ice-well pump- 

 house, a distance of four hundred 

 and fifty yards from the generating 

 station, is located a three throw pump, 

 which provides the water supply to the 

 house. At the home farm and estate 

 workshops a 15 li.p. motor takes the 

 place of the gas engine formerly 

 employed to drive the farm machinery 

 and a thirty-six-inch saw bench with 

 the lathes and wood-working machinery. 

 The same applies to the Can well 

 (late Farm, where another 15 li.p. 

 motor is at work. Meters record the 

 amount of current, which is charged to 

 one of the tenants according to the 

 amount used. In the stables there is 

 a i . , li.p. motor driving a chaff-cutter, 

 and at the laundry the machinery is 

 also electrically driven. 



One of the applications to estate 

 requirements shown is that of circular- 

 sawing, for which electricity is found 

 to be extremely convenient, as the 

 saws can be started at any time 

 without the necessity for getting an 

 engine under way. Under the older 

 methods it is usually necessary to 

 accumulate the wood until there is 

 sufficient to justify the running of the 

 engine ; but at Canwell, when other 

 work cannot be carried out owing to 

 rain or other causes, the men can 

 immediately be turned on to sawing, 

 chart-cutting, grinding or any other 

 indoor work without delay. 



The total number of lights installed 

 in the house amounts to six hundred, 

 and in the farms, dairy and outbuild 

 ings one hundred and twenty lights. A 

 small church, which is now being built 

 in the park, will be supplied with 

 current from the central station, both 

 for organ-blowing and lighting. The 

 power transmitted amounts to 56 h.p., 

 the furthest motor being located seven 

 hundred and fifty yards from the 

 station. In order to reach this distance 



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