279 more power AND WHAT THOUSANDS OF TONS of machinery and equipment go to make a modern power station. All must be strongly and rigidly supported; and powerful cranes are needed to move into position loads up to 150 tons. British Electricity are building 38 ELECTRICITY STRUCTURAL STEELWORK Structural steelwork for a modern power station reaches 100 to 130 ft. into the air. Working at such heights men fix in position great boiler drums and pipework, huge coal bunkers, coal conveyors, and much other plant and equipment.