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OR BOOSTER STATIONS

E OF FIRST REMARKS
NSTRUCTION
Records do not show the early method utilisec
uary, 1923. but local information and tradition advise
a small steam unit. Increased in size in
1926. Possibly to an electric motor.

July, 1933. An electrical operated boosting station to
Y 1951 increase flow in the eight-inch main to
Aberdare. It is housed in a small galvanised
iron shed.

Two new Thompson Castlemain Pumps were
purchased and installed in a small brick
building, constructed in April, 1951.