View of Turbine Draught Tube at Mullardoch Subsidiary Generating Station. Copy of negative, Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric, Box 869/2, Contract No. 9, Plate No. 220.

Description View of Turbine Draught Tube at Mullardoch Subsidiary Generating Station. Copy of negative, Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric, Box 869/2, Contract No. 9, Plate No. 220.

Date 3/10/1951

Collection Records of the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board (1943-90), Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 869077

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric Project, contract no 9, Mullardoch subsidiary generating station, turbine draught tube, 3 October 1951 Mullardoch Dam was completed in 1952, and measures 727m long and 48m high. It releases water into a tunnel linking Loch Mullardoch with Loch Benevean. This view shows the tapering steel tube which will be installed at the outlet from the single water turbine in the generating station by the Mullardoch dam. The makers, P and W MacLellan, were notable structural engineering contractors. The tube will be embedded in concrete. Mullardoch Dam is a component of the Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric Project which was the first part of the Affric/Beauly scheme to be built by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. The Affric/Beauly scheme is one of eight large schemes built by the Board from the 1940s to the 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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