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I persona! slants on doings of\ interest to power men--some significant, some just odd This winter's Oil outlook is good iot users, not so good for producers. Stocks of crude - and products are at record levels -- so high, in'fact, that some states have put limits on production and refiners are cutting runs to stills. Unless such cutbacks and heavy winter demands bite deep into-stocks, lower prices are likely. ;In any ' case, there's no need to fear even local shortages.' Moose-locomotive collisions became so frequent after diesels went into service in the wilder sections of Canada that scientists were. asked to investigate. The answer, proved simple enough - moan of the diesel's horn sounds enough like a moose mating call co bring lovesick moose crashing into the engine. Is yOUr plant fire-safe? Disastrous fire at General Motors' modern transmission plant at Livonia, Mich., started a lot of self-questioning. Some big lessons from GM's experience: (1) Don't pin too much, faith on apparently fireproof construction. (2). Make sure your plant-protection people are ready for an emergency. (3) Call in outside help promptly and troin your fire forces to work closely with chose of your community. (4) If your plant is a sprawling under-one-roof giant, give thought to dividing it into fireproof compartments. ' A new (lre-reslstant paint was announced by a leading maker shortly after GM's fire. It's a water-reducible high-gloss enamel char will char under a blowtorch but won't burn. Using watet avoids hazards of normal, highly flammable thinnets. 17. S. g0n6r&tlng C&p&City has passed the 100-millton kw mark, according to Federal Power Commission^ Big factor in boosting this total for utilities and industrials is the nearly 3-mHUon kw added by utilities in first half of 1933. Novel engineering ideas keep popping from the fertile brain of R G LeTourneau, dynamic pioneer In the earth-roovirig field. His latest is a rubber-tired freight train for rough, undeveloped country. The "locomotive" is a giant critek carrying a diesel-electric plant. Hitched co the locomotive are freight cars each having four powered wheels. Vithta the hubs of the heavily tired wheels are electric motors drawing juice from the locomotive power plant. The traction so gained permits the Tournatrain to climb steeper grades than an automobile. An ingenious automatic steering system causes each car to folio* exactly the path of the locomotive. If, for example, the locomotive makes a sharp turn, each car will come up to the same place and make an identical turn. A new "Big Inch" to empty at Newark, N. ). Is on the cards. Defense officials favor it to assure the East of supplies in event of war. Talks with prospective pipeline companies are expected to begin soon. Hd&rd a little jingle the other day chat stuck in my memory. It goes like rbis: The man who knows how will always have work But the man who knows why will supervise the jerk Not much as poetry -- in fact, rather crude - but it makes a pile of sense. fi POWER NOVEMBER rSiV'v*~`" ----- ' ' ..........o ntoitjiral gas, drive huge electric genera* .^icn.'Theirjob: to supply the current to Stffljtlt. defense-needed aluminum. One new engines--and Westinghouse has supplied 74 more Axiflos, All in all, (he 194 fans will move over 2,300,000 cubic feet of cooling air through the genera tors every minute. That's enough air to fill a tramload of 800 boxcars! AxJflo Fans keep them cool. They're compact, efficient, and trouble-free. That's important for hard-to-tet-at job*. h'oftfo biggest problems, though, was to S>>]ttcp the equipment running cool and j^tjjm at top efficiency. One day--today or in the near future --you may have a problem that involves pulling air to work. When you do, re * Westinghouse Axiflo* fans did rV.jhp trick. Each draws 12,000 cubic feet through the generators every j picking up theexcessheal, Then (*>ltaair is piped through concrete ducts out exhaust stacks which line both f -*'* f the building. member that Westinghouse has the most complete air conditioning, air cleaning and air handling line in the industry. See the new Catalog 600. ft conloins60 fact-filled pageson products, uses, and helpful data. To get your free copy, just call your local WestinghouseSturtevant office. Or, write to Westing Cooling-air drown, through the engine generators picks up the in tense heal, then safely exhausts t through individual Hocks. 'vC'f?0* Alcoa has just expanded this P'anl- They have installed 74 /iv.r house Electric Corporation, Sturtevant Division, Hyde Park, Boston 36, Moss. YOU CAN 8E SURE...IF ^^e$till^hOU$C p" iPjOHa- NOVEMBER 1953 _______ laoc AIR HANDLING