 The
two largest (B and D) had a span of 90 ft and a height of 80 ft to
the ridge of the roof, allowing for the manufacture of the large slow-speed
generating plant of the period. With three galleries (G, H, and K
aisles), the total floor area in the building came to nearly three-quarters
of a million square feet.
Across
the avenue were two smaller buildings, each 578 by 170 ft wide:
one housed a steel foundry (now the transformer shop) and a forge,
and the other an iron foundry. In between was a two-floor building
containing auxiliary foundry shops, brake shop, and printing works.
To the south was a three-storey pattern shop and store.
Main
offices, almost a replica of those at Pittsburgh, were built at
the north end of the machine shop. Opposite them, a gate in the
boundary wall still marks the main entrance, proposed but never
used.
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