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The notebook (loose leaved binder) has Savage's name on the inside and his address which is given as 131 Prescot Road, St Helen's, Lancs.The alphabetised sections contain technical notes, reports on power stations and details of correspondence. Topics include; St Helen's Corporation Electricity power station notes on no.3 boiler house (1924-1926); Notes on how to find total BTU's required to evaporate one lb of steam; How to find the efficiency of a boiler; How to find possible evaporation of water per lb of fuel; Steam pressures and temperatures and specific heat of superheated steam (March 1922); Paisley Corporation power station boiler plant notes; Induced draught plant notes (erected March 1920); Extracts from 'the electrical times' on coal and electricity (1943 to 1945); Notes on Manchester Corporation Electricity Department - details of contruction of Barton power station; Lea coal meters (1926); Cubic contents of slack (Haydock, Sutton Heath, and Worsley - 1926); Extarct of letter from Messrs Richardson, Westgarth & Co Ltd re cleaning of 'contraflo' condenser (1921); Notes on no.2 condenser made by Worthington-Simpson Ltd and extract of letter from company (1921); Calorific value of fuel; West Ham Testing Laboratory formula (1927); Walsall Electricity Works, copy of letter received (1923); Gross and net calorific value of coal; Copies of the Electricity Commissioners report on St Helen's Corporation station for the years ended 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1926; Efficiency of Green's economiser; Flue gases and flue gas loss; Glass; Heat energy distribution in an electric power station; London & Scottish Assurance letter regarding testing of boilers and other apparatus (1925); Notes on induced draughts; Notes on Lungstrum's turbine made by the Brush Electrical Company, Loughborough; Notes on Orsat apparatus (1919); Pump characteristics (charts showing head in feet versus gallons per minute); Steel plates; Properties of saturated steam; Notes on efficiencies of steam turbo-generator (1921 to 1927); Notes on Paisley Corporation Electricity Department governor relay valves (1919);and Notes on the alkalinity of water.