How to obtain old GEC Motor Drawings?
How to obtain old GEC Motor Drawings?
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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
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





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RE: How to obtain old GEC Motor Drawings?
I've been having a search around this afternoon and managed to find the documentation for motor in a dusty cupboard hidden away.
RE: How to obtain old GEC Motor Drawings?
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!
RE: How to obtain old GEC Motor Drawings?
Sounds like any legacy material would have done well to have been kept in order.
Thanks for the background info.
RE: How to obtain old GEC Motor Drawings?
The old GEC rotating machine business from Rugby, UK, is still going strong - now as GE Power Conversion.