Industrial notes

Large Steel Mill Order to Westinghouse. — Contracts have been awarded to the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., amounting to approximately $1,250,000 by the Bethlehem Steel Co. for motors, control and power equipment to be installed in new hot and cold strip mills of the Lackawanna Plant of the steel company, at Buffalo. The electrical units include: four 3000-hp and one 1000-hp alternating-current motors, nine 1250-hp direct-current motors, and one 2500-kilowatt and one 1300-kilowatt motor-generator sets. Westing-house is also supplying nearly 800 motors and variable frequency units for the roll tables of the mills and motors, motor-generator sets and control for a flying shear which catches and cuts to accurate lengths strip steel as it passes through the final rolling process. Westinghouse equipment will be installed to provide a cool air circulating system to ventilate the larger motors and motor-generator sets. Nearly all of the apparatus will be made in East Pittsburgh, work to start immediately.