• customers at 480 and 240 Volts direct current. The generating plant at Newbury in 1955 comprised: 1 × 110 kW diesel engine set DC 500 volts 2 × 180 kW diesel...
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    modified to fold. The electrical equipment was changed from a 12 volt system to 24 volts. The fuel system was modified over that of the Seafire 45 to incorporate...
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    The line was electrified on the DC third rail system, initially at 660 volts, in sections: Waterloo to Twickenham flyover (for Kingston Loop) 30 January...
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    João Carvalho (2022). "Portugal: From Exception to the Epicentre". In Kennet Lynggaard; Mads Dagnis Jensen; Michael Kluth (eds.). Governments' Responses...
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    Truro, and Observer Close, Bedford. The area of housing development at Kennet Heath, Thatcham, on the former site of RAF Thatcham, (until 1999 a distribution...
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    Parsons for a steam turbine and used a dynamo as load. Output 65 amps, 100 volts at a speed of 12,000rpm. Presented to Trinity College, Dublin by Gerald...
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