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Description
Chase Transfer Corporation delivers diesel electric generators to Maine Public Service in Presque Isle.
These state-of-the-art "fast-start" generators, the design of which was adapted from diesel railroad engines, were started with the push of a button and were up to full output power in 90 seconds.
About This Item
- Title: Generator delivery, Presque Isle, 1959
- Creator: Richard W. Sprague
- Creation Date: 1959
- Subject Date: 1959
- Location: Presque Isle, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 24 cm x 19 cm
- Collection: Richard Sprague
- Object Type: Image
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- Power utility companies--Maine--Presque Isle
- Delivering--Maine--Presque Isle
- Electricity--Maine
- Cranes
- Maine Public Service Company--Equipment and supplies
- Trucks
- Electrical apparatus
- Chase Transport Corporation (Me.)--Equipment and supplies
- Electric generators
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