The Archive · 1923

Electricity Department

Riverside Power Station Disaster.—The Engineer-in-Chief and Manager reports to the Electricity Committee that within two days of the accident which occurred on November 15 at the Riverside Power Station, at which a 20,000 K.W. turbine was wrecked, he received a cablegram from Messrs. Parsons & Ca., Ld., the builders of the turbine, expressing their deepest regret at the accident and loss of life, and undertaking to replace the-turbine and re-condition the whole of their plant entirely at their' cost.

The Electricity. Committee note with extreme gratification Messrs. Parsons' prompt acceptance of liability and undertaking to make good the damage.

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