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In ten minutes he was back with the President. - *‘What you sce here,’’ he said to the President with a glance at the halted work. ‘illustrates better than an hour of talk the immediate need of this con- cern. The board was satisfied to get in that Curtis ; turbine and every one agrees that the new electric power was a big thing for the works, but we're away out of date on the rest of the equipment. You know what the line shafting costs, You know that the power 1 loss in transmission is somewhere between 25% and $ 40%, You know how the whole contrivance of line shafting cuts out light, how dirty it is, how badly it « effects insurance rates and how dangerous it is. We're none of us likely to forget that accident to Wincher in September. You know that we're paying for all this wear and tear and wasted power even when only a few of the machines are in use. This morning we have a ood clear showing of what happens to this whole Bunch of machines when anything’ goes | wrong with the belting.” “How would you fix it??? demanded pie President. “T'd settle the difficulty by cleaning out the whole mess of shafting and giving indi vidual motor drive to each machine. Then ‘only the active machines would be using power, and the stopping of one would not peste, with any of the others. Now we ie have to start up the whole of a wasteful and dangerous transmission system to move one rab How Electricity Affects Production Efficiency The Guarantee of Excellence on joods Electrical ELECTRIC DRIVE machine. With individual drive each machine is in dependent, and a wide margin of waste is cut out every day. Into the bargain the output would be boosted, man for man, by the modern system, I’m no. technical expert, but I should say we were bound to do from 15% to 20% more work with the same force, not counting the salary saving from the simpler ma- chinery aystem.?? ‘As the thing turned out that accident had happened at exactly the right time, The next board meeting took up the problem and a local electrical engincer’s figures Showed that motors and installation would fgure much below the theoretical cost. 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