Discussion at Kansas city: Testing, inspecting and maintaining stations

Caesar Antoniono: There is no question in my mind that the success of the automatic substation depends entirely upon inspection and maintenance. We were pioneers in this field, having installed the first automatic substation in the latter part of 1917 and to date, we have operated 17 complete automatic substations and two that are under way, in varying sizes of 300, 500, 1000 and 1500 kw. including one mercury arc rectifier.