TURBINE ACTIVITIES IN THE FAR EAST.
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.