No less than ten machines, aggregating 25,000 horsepower, are included in
a large shipment of Westinghouse turbo-electric power equipment from East
Pittsburg to the Far East. Most of these machines will go to Japan for
the equipment of railway, lighting, and manufacturing plants.
One of the first machines to be put in service will be a 1,500-kilowatt
turbine unit for Manila, to be installed in a station with four other
machines of like construction put into service several years ago. Past
experience with these machines has resulted in the recent extension. It
will be recalled that this railway system was engineered and constructed
by the American engineering firm of J. G. White & Co.
Hardly second in importance is the large turbine station of the Osaka
Electric Company, Osaka, Japan, now building. This will be one of the
largest power stations in Japanese territory, and will contain, for the
present, 15,000 kilowatts in five units. Three of these machines are now
being shipped from East Pittsburg. The remainder will follow as fast as
they can be built and tested. The Osaka installation is under direct
charge of Messrs. Takata & Co., of New York and Tokio.
In the strictly manufacturing field, there are two installations in
process of erection, for the Imperial Steel Works of the Japanese
government and the ship yards of the Hakkaido Tanko Steamship Company.
Two 500-kilowatt Westinghouse-Parsons turbo units will comprise an
initial installation in each of these plants. This gratifying reception
of American motive-power machinery in the Far East, especially Japan, may
be regarded as an index of future operations where government inspection
is exceedingly rigid and is exercised along lines much more detailed than
in this country.
The General Electric Company has obtained very satisfactory results with
the tungsten lamp. They have shipped over 75,000 to all parts of the
country, and the breakage in shipment is below one and one-half per cent.
They state that they are issuing a new bulletin covering tungsten lamps,
both series and multiple, and have a large production, good stocks, and
are in position to make prompt shipment, particularly of the 100-watt and
all types of tungsten lamps which they have standardized.