200 Miles of Cable

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 17 (Supplement)

200 Miles of Cable

Some idea oi the magnitude of the work on the Civic Theatre may be 1 gained from the details o£ such a comparatively small, but important, feature as the electrical installation. i No less than 200 miles of cable had to be laid to connect up the various points and switches, 80 miles of j it in conduits. The total load on the j job- which is received through three Power Boaud supply services, is 1,800 j amps. Mr. Reay Hunt, a principal of the Electrical Service Company was entrusted with all the electrical i work, and found it necessary to generate at the theatre 70 kva alternating current at 110 volts, i which was “stiffened up” to 14,000 volts i at different points to supply the 7,000 feet of Neon tube lighting which will j line the inside and the outside of the building. I Among the varied electrical work installed by this local firm is a complete intercommunicating telephone system throughout the building to every department and office, also an electrically-controlled clock system enabling synchronised standard time to . be kept on the various clocks through- ' out the building. Nor was this all. The winter garden | kitchen has been fitted with the latest ; electrical saving devices; there is the huge and complicated stage lighting and dimming equipment, which i 3 of j the very latest design; and the high- ! intensity arcs for the film projection . I apparatus in the operating box, which i alone takes 200 amps. Particular public interest will doubtless be centred in the two elec- ■ trieally-operated lifts or barges, one , | of which brings up to the auditorium j

Big Electrical Installation

the orchestra of 30 players, and the other the huge organ conscde. That the Electrical Service Company were chosen from all the electrical firms In Auckland to perform this stupendous undertaking shows that man who know are keen to appraise the excellence of this firm’s work.

I Although this la not their lirst job ot 1 this sort, it is certainly their most creditable, reflecting as It does 1 extreme credit upor assistants and j principals alike The Electrical Service Company aim j undertake household and public building electrical installations and repairs of all kinds. Enough Is said of their , reasonable charges when thet were .chosen to do such }\. ta.-k as the cniaj plete electrical work oi the Civiu.