Manchester Electricity Works
of Dickinson Street, Manchester
See Dickinson Street Power Station, Bloom Street Power Station and later Stuart Street Power Station
1896 A very considerable addition to the capacity of the Manchester Corporation Electric Light Works has recently been made by means of a storage battery equipment. The battery is installed in the immediate vicinity of Hunt’s Bank, at a distance of one mile from the central generating station, and is charged from the ordinary distributing mains of the existing five-wire system. At the battery sub station a motor generator is employed, to give the requisite addition to the ordinary pressure of supply that is necessary to overcome the back electromotive force of the battery. The motor generator is designed to carry the normal charging current of 300 amperes, and raise it from 410 to 590 volts. The battery has been supplied and erected by the Chloride Electrical Storage Syndicate, Limited, Clifton Junction, Manchester, ....'[1]