Power trains

• Book ID: 104133840
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1944
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Volume: 238
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(44)90759-3

✦ Synopsis

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Power Trains.----(;. M. Laffoon of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in an address to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pittsburgh, described the 5ooo kw. and the moo kw. mobile power plants built to supply the needs of the United Nations.

In countries where the electric power plants have been destroyed or puI out of commission a certain amount of power is required I)v the occupying \rmy or Navy over and above their normal power supply needed for primary military operations, to operate base hospitals, machine shops, repair shops, and replacement parts manufacturing plants. Likewise, a similar mininmin amount of electric power is required by the civilian population to operate hospitals, re-establish and operate water supply and sewage systems, operate repair shops and manufacturing plants for machine tools, and carry on other projects which are vital to the beginning of a rehabilitation program, to enable the civilian population to becoine self sustaining and to effectiveh" coordinate and cooperate with the military program.