How to obtain old GEC Motor Drawings?

[spggodd]

Hi,

I am working on a fairly old system designed in the 1970's.
One of the drives is a GEC 3500 HP motor with the drawing reference (W4058844).

Does anyone know who I can talk to get hold of these drawings or even it its possible to get these still?

Thanks
Steve

 

[ScottyUK]

You might try Quartzelec at Rugby, UK, which is a successor company to the old Cegelec and GEC Large Machines businesses. Not sure whether the archives survived the business transfers, but the old GEC companies generally seem to have looked after their legacy records quite well. Good luck!

 

[electricpete]

How about Alstom? I know they were linked with GEC at some point in the past.

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(2B)+(2B)' ?

 

[spggodd]

Thanks for you help guys.

I've been having a search around this afternoon and managed to find the documentation for motor in a dusty cupboard hidden away.

 

[ScottyUK]

ePete,

The GEC business broke up into numerous fragments in the 80s and 90s, some of which merged with French company CGE to form GEC-Alsthom. GEC-Alsthom passed to Areva, and the transmission parts of Areva have now passed back to Alstom (without the 'h'). The distribution parts passed to Schneider. GEC's power generation assets remained with Alsthom, who in turn had some sort of short-lived joint venture with ABB early this century. As I recall Alsthom took over ABB's gas turbine business, which virtually bankrupted them because of some fairly serious problems with the turbine design. It is a tangled mess of a history!

 

[spggodd]

Yeh, I gathered it was a bit messy from a quick look on wikipedia!
Sounds like any legacy material would have done well to have been kept in order.

Thanks for the background info.

 

[Drivesrock]

Hi all

The old GEC rotating machine business from Rugby, UK, is still going strong - now as GE Power Conversion.