Extension: Salford Electricity Works, Frederick Road, Salford

The Mayor of Salford (Alderman Worsley) yesterday inaugurated a new departure by the Salford Corporation when he started a new 5,000 kilowatt steam turbo-generator in the Electricity Works, Frederick-road, Pendleton. The new generating set, which was constructed by the British Westinghouse Company, is designed not only to meet the immediate increase in the demand for power, and reduce the cost of generation, but to give sufficient time to consider the larger question of an efficient and cheap supply to meet all future requirements for power, lighting, and traction. A second 5,000 kilowatt set is to be installed at the works, to be ready in time for the winter of 1915-16. It was stated yesterday that the old generators cost £72,000, or £14 per kilowatt, whereas the new set had cost £15,000, or £3 per kilowatt. In addition, the old sets consumed 30lb of steam for every kilowatt, but the new one only took 14.5lb. The advance in modern science was demonstrated by the fact that if the committee could generate by turbine, it would mean a saving of £13,000 a year. [Manchester Courier, Thursday, 3 December 1914, page 2]