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Sordoviso

Sordoviso Switchgear Limited
Falcon Works
Loughborough
UK


The company have been making various types of Street Lighting Automatic Control for some years. Their systems are characterised by their extreme simplicity made possible by the use of non-tilting mercury switches, one of the main features being the extremely small energising current required for operation. In the main, their systems are dependent upon pilot wires for their operation, but this has the advantage of a positive control, free from outside interference, and avoids the installation of complicated control equipment at the substation. They are exhibiting the Sordoviso Delay Cascade System which ensures that sections come into operation with a suitable time-lag so as to prevent the overloading of the supply mains. - APLE Conference Programme Glasgow 1945


References:
APLE Conference Programme Glasgow 1945


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