Turbine Floor 3

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Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.6s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The control panel wall for Turbine No. 4 at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, a full-height bank of gauges and switches facing two large yellow valve wheels and a small corrugated booth. The turbo-generators were Metropolitan-Vickers back-pressure machines from the 1950 contract, with a 20 MW condensing turbine added in 1954.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Turbine Floor 3
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-040
Process: Giclée
Captured: 14 April 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.6s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Morwell, Victoria, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Morwell, Victoria, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The control panel wall for Turbine No. 4 runs the length of the space at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, dense with circular gauges, dials and switches across its full height. Two large yellow valve wheels sit on the floor in the foreground, and a small corrugated metal booth with a wooden door occupies the right side of the frame. A row of gridded windows along the far wall draws light across the concrete floor. The space is built around its instrumentation, the long panel facing the floor where the valves and the booth stand, everything within reach of an operator working the machine.

This was one position on the turbine floor of the power station. The machines it controlled came from the 1950 contract, two 30,000-kilowatt back-pressure turbo-generators supplied by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Export Co. Ltd. of Manchester with feed-heating plant, with a 20 MW low-pressure condensing turbine added under the 1954 revised plan. The whole complex was built between 1949 and 1959 by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, the centrepiece of Victoria's postwar policy to sever the state's reliance on black coal from New South Wales. Brett photographed the turbine floor on 14 April 2017, in the closed complex before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A turbine control panel lines the left wall, its rows of analogue gauges and switchgear still intact. The label above reads "Turbine No." followed by a partially obscured number. Heavy valve wheels stand bolted to the concrete floor in the foreground, painted yellow and flaking. Steel trusses span the ceiling high above. Pale light filters through tall industrial windows along the far wall. The air in here would taste of cold dust and old grease.

Brett Patman

The series

Morwell Power Station

1949-2014 · 79 photographs

The State Electricity Commission of Victoria built Morwell as the centrepiece of its postwar plan to sever Victoria's reliance on black coal from New South Wales. Construction ran from 1949 to 1959; electricity production commenced in December 1958 and the first commercial briquettes followed in December 1959. With the demolition of Old Yallourn between 1995 and 1999, Morwell became the earliest surviving large-scale Victorian state-grid power station, registered on the Victorian Heritage Register as H2377 on 1 March 2018.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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06 REVIEWS &MIDDOT; 1 FROM CUSTOMER

What collectors say

5.00 average

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1 September 2022

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I own Positronic Solar. We are in the business of shutting down coal fired power stations. These are gifts to the boys for a year where we installed 3MW of solar and generated 50GWh of clean energy. Boys haven't seen them yet but every rep coming in bearing goodies in the past week is blown away by the quality of the photography and production