Physical description

Set of six small black and white prints of the interior of the Ascot Vale or Essendon NMETL power house and associated control and generation equipment, mid 1910's?



.1 - DC power generators with engines in the background

.2 - Steam power engines.

.3 - Boilers - and fire boxes with two man standing in the photograph.

.4 - Switchboard with three men standing alongside.

.5 - Repairing generator equipment - partly dismantled.

.6 - ditto with three men in the photograph.

.7 - Photo of rotary converters, possibly Carlton, but no notation on rear of photograph. From name plates on machines - Westinghouse Manchester.

Inscriptions & markings

On rear in ink

.1 - "Generators Ascot Vale"

.2 - "Engines Ascot Vale"

.3 - "Switchboard Ascot Vale"

.4 - ditto

.5 - "Ascot Vale breakdown" and in pencil "

.6 - "Ascot Vale breakdown" and in pencil "