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. *V 3% SPRING. POWERFAX.1 9 3 4 The power bouse at WiUmtrr. ELLIOTT ENGINES FOR MINNESOTA STATE INSTITUTIONS TATE institutions of various have been engines. Needless to S kinds are usually self-con say, reliability is especially im tained communities, supply portant in these plants. ing most of their needs on the During 1932 Elliott engine-gen premises. Since they are apt to be erator units went to work in three located in out-of-the-way places, Minnesota State institutions. Two their self-reliance is almost obliga of these installations are pictured. tory. Almost without exception, At the Willmar State Asylum such institutions have their own an Elliott 200-kw. four-valve en power and heating plants, and for gine driving an Elliott direct-cur the most part the prime movers rent generator was installed. This institution, located one and a half miles north of Willmar, on the shore of a beautiful lake, was orig inally the Willmar Homestead. In 1921, the first buildings consisting of a main building for offices, wards for patients, and a power plant building, were erected. In the power plant was installed a 35 - kw. Elliott - Ridgway single valve, center-crank engine with direct-connected, three-wire, di rect-current, 220-volt generator. In 1917, the State added an in sane ward and in 1919, two men's cottages. A 75-kw. engine-gener ator unit was added to the power plant. Construction of more build ings between the years 1919 and 1924 necessitated the addition of another generating unit, which was an Elliott-Ridgway four-valve side-crank engine driving an Elliott-Ridgway 150-kw., three-wire, 240-volt generator. In 1932, build ing requirements had reached the point where additional current was necessary and the Elliott 200kw. unit already mentioned was installed, and the original 35-kw. unit was dismantled and placed in storage at the institution. The in stitution now consists of a main or administration building, fifteen CRIMDEBN00000220