Business & Finance: MOVABLE POWER STATION

If bombs or sabotage put utility substations out of commission, this new mobile transformer can come to the rescue, supply emergency power for a city of 70,000. It is mounted on a special railroad car. The gunlike protrusions are really insulators through which connections are made with the local power network. American Gas & Electric has ordered six such units from General Electric.

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