Allan C. Baker and Mike G. Fell. Meaford A & B Power Stations and their locomotives. Part 1: Electricity supply in North Staffordshire.
Coal was delivered by train, but provision was made for emergency supply by road. The boiler house contained six Babcock & Wilcox high-head water tube boilers. The combustion chambers were of Bailey wall construction. The turbine house was 367 feet long, 82 feet wide and 70 feet 6 inches high. Locomotives supplied by W.G. Bagnall of Stafford and named Anne and Muriel in 1945 and 1946.

Stafford Corporation Electricity Generating Station with John Somerville Highfield (1871-1045) Resident Engineer

Meaford A turbine engine house on 18 May 1976

Aerial view of Stoke-on-Trent electricity power station with wooden cooling towers taken in 1933Charles Henry Yeaman (1869-1940) City Electrical Engineer Hanley Generating Station viewed from Caldron Canal North Staffordshire Railway battery electric locomotive Stoking Lancashire boilers by hand at Stafford Corporation Electricity Generating Station Potteries Electric Traction trams at top of Ironmarket Newcastle-under-Lyme on 17 March 1900 Bellis & Morcom six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine installed in Newcastle-under-Lyme Generating Station in November 1928 Alfred John Castriot De Renzi, Borough Electrical Engineer, Newcastle-under-Lyme Last annual staff outing in 1947 of Newcastle-under-Lyme Electricity Department Frederick Favell (1894-1978) Engineer and Manager of the North West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority Art Deco logo on gates to sub-station at Victoria Road, Fenton installed 1837 Railway sidings at north end of Meaford A Power Station on 24 September 1945 Work on south chimney and precipitator columns at Meaford A Power Station on 19 December 1945 Construction site looking north west on 29 January 1946 Tippler gear and coal conveyor under construction on 21 June 1947 No. 1 Tippler conveyors and junction tower under construction on 6 February 1948 No. 2 Tippler on 9 April 1948 (one of Bagnall locomotives just visible on left Meaford A operational with two cooling towers & two chimneys & two Bagnall locomotives Taylor Tunicliff & Co. Ltd. of Stone advertisement showing heavy duty post insulators Central Electricity Authority 20 ton wagon on Meaford A tippler Barlaston Power Sidings signal box and Meaford A Power Station

Euan Corrie. Scottish bypasses: 2. The Caledonian Canal. 20-33

Map: Caledonian Railway Highland lines Entrance to Caledonian Canal from Loch Linnhe at Corpach Ordnance Survey 1873 Corpach basin SS Gondolier at Banavie Pier with Holmes 4-4-0 No. 344 with van conveying luggage Banavie Pier Station: 1900 Ordnance Survey map SS Gondolier leaving Banavie Pier SS Gondolier leaving Gairlochy Top Lock Entrance to Loch Lochy at Gairlochy Ordnance Surrvey 6-inch map 1903 View from tower of St. Benedict's Abbey with SS Gondolier approaching top of staircase at Fort Augustus Ordnance Survey map 1900 map of above View from tower of St. Benedict's Abbey showing Fort Augustus staircase Railway viaduct at Fort Augustus SS Gondolier descending Fort Augustus staircase with St. Benedict's Abbey in background Fishing boat descending Fort Augustus staircase between second and third chambers Four sailing fishing boats passing Tomnahurich swing bridge when manually operated Ordnance Survey map 1904 map of above Muirtown Top Lock with schooner Margaret Reid about to pass into third lock Ordnance Survey map 1904 map of above

Tony Neuls. Cheltenham Coach Station — 1975. 34-47

Part 1 see Issue 111 page XX


Malcolm Bobbitt. In the showroom... Austin's 3 litre white elephant. 48-57

Illustrations:

NOB 567F publicity photograph ADO61 with Hydrolastic suspension snd self-levelling at rear A125 Sheerline of 1947 Austin A135 Princess IV with Vanden Plas body Sergio Pininfarina styled A99 Westminster with two femsle models, one in parschute sty'e dress Sergio Pininfarina styled A110 Westminster photographed in 2018 Vanden Plas 4 litre Princess R with Rolls Royce engine criticised for poor handling and performance Alec Issigonis XC 9000 of 1956 Alec Issigonis XC 9005 of 1961 Austin 1800 on MIRA test track JOK 620F being tested in France ADO61 OOH559G


Mike G. Fell. Hull's King George Doc. Skimpings. 58-9

Illustrations:

Aerial photograph looking east in 1926. The Tekoa built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull for New Zealand Shipping Co. View towards grain silo but much busier


The Institute. 60


Chris Sambrook. . Ludovic Berry — @He hath done all things well'. 61-4

Illustrations:

Compliment slip Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Ludovic Berry on footplate of Peckett X2 class 0-6-0ST Dorothy Collapsed No.7 shaft at Brookside Colliery, Wigan