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ROBOT LIGHTING PLANT ENGINES THAT GALL FOR HELP Port Macquarie, a small seaside town,, in New South Wales, is to be lighted by an elcctrical generating plant which runs itself. It is a new British six-cylinder 240 h.p. engine, two models of which will supply the town's electric power Port Macquarie asked that the plant should be capable of functioning unattended and the necessary mechanism Avas duly devised, if there is a rise in tho temperature of tho engines' lubricating oil. th' 1 absentee attendant will hear an [ alarm. So, if there is any failurq of the water cooling system, or overloading, or ovcrspced; failure of oil pressure, or Loo rapid drop in the tempera In re of I: ho water of the cooling system, forth will blare th-" warning signal. And if nobody hears the warning She engines will stop work within, five minutes.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 119, 20 June 1941, Page 3
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147RUNS ITSELF Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 119, 20 June 1941, Page 3
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