Rodel, Generating Station View of Blackstone diesel engine
SC 466168
Description Rodel, Generating Station View of Blackstone diesel engine
Date 24/4/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 466168
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Former electric generating station, Rodel, Harris, Inverness-shire This small station was built to serve a wartime army camp in the vicinity. It was a small building, rubble-built, with a corrugated iron roof, and contained a small water-turbine driving a generator, with a standby diesel-powered generating set. This view shows the diesel generating set, with a vertical single Blackstone engine driving a Higgs Motors generator. The heavy flywheels evened out the power strokes of the single cylinder. The tank behind was for cooling the engine. The use of masonry was unusual in World War II, and it is possible that this station was built within the shell of a former water-powered corn mill. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/11/16
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