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Interior of an electric generating plant

Interior of an electric generating plant

Interior of an electric generating plant
[ca. 1920]

This could be the interior of the Addington sub-station which stood at the intersection of Clarence, Foster and Princess Streets. It probably began service about 1915, taking the Government supply from the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric power station to supply the Riccarton Borough. The other possibility is that it is the Armagh Street sub-station which had two 500kw rotary converters installed to enable DC load to be supplied from Lake Coleridge power about the same time.

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File Reference CCL PhotoCD 5, IMG0068

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