Former British Leyland, Chorley - rotary converter
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Former British Leyland, Chorley - rotary converter
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 16 Jul 1980
This was a cotton mill that had never been used as such and was latterly owned by BL. The site has since been flattened. The motive power was a cross compound steam engine driving a large dynamo with DC drives to the individual machines. The whole place was an amazing survivor. This is a rotary converter that could convert grid AC to DC for the mill if the main engine wasn't running. Some of the last of these were in Fleet Street, London to drive printing presses before the newspappers all decamped and/or modernised.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.644269
Longitude
-2.626204