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Lejt--This motur drives through a V-belt a kitchen exhaustJan serving the French Restaurant. Right-- This motor drives a wash-room exhaustJan, which is belt driven. The Crocker-Wheeler equipment for the Palmolive beacon was installed in 1930, when the beacon was creeled, and has been in service ever since. Thed-c/d-c motor generators provide the constant voltage which must be supplied the light. The main unit, operating at a speed of 1200 rpm, includes a 50-hp, 230-volt, compound motor and a 30-kw, 120-volt, 250ampere generator. An auxiliary unit involves a 7JA-hp, 230-volt, com pound-wound motor driving a 3-kw, 37-volt, 80-ampere generator, operat ing at 1800 rpm. In all the 22 years of service, it has never been necessary to turn or smooth up the commutators on these d-c machines. The Palmolive beacon is said to be the most powerful aviation beacon ever built. The light is so powerful that if the beam were thrown on a house or group of people 15 miles away, snapshot photographs could be taken. A newspaper could be read by the beacon's light 50 miles away and at 55JA miles the light of the beacon is as strong as the light of the full moon. The light at a distance of 33 miles appears 4.79 times lighter than the full moon. The Palmolive beacon is operated from dusk to dawn, rc- A daytime close-up oj the Palmolive bear. This Elliott Crocker-Wheeler 5-hp, 1200-rpm motor drives through a V-belt theJresh air intakefan for the French Room in the Drake Hotel. i & Kitchen exhaust Jan driven by 30-hpt 850-rpm motor. PAGE 12 foWKHKAX, SrHINC