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Gallery: Greater Manchester Miscellaneous
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As part of its drive to improve the services powering its massive industrial presence (which would also include the provision of electricity and the Manchester Ship Canal), the Manchester Corporation elected to provide a mains system of pressurised water to drive machinery within the city.
Connected consumers were able to use the high pressure system to drive hoists and cranes, and particularly to bale cotton from the hundreds of local mills for onward distribution. Seen as less wasteful and considerably less polluting than site-produced steam, Manchester's hydraulic supply (bolstered by further stations) continued until the late 1940s.
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