Dodge Hamtramck Plant Compressor Building Description and Photos
The small steel-framed Compressor Building was designed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls in 1915 and is situated next to the Foundry. The machinery installed here boosted the existing low-pressure air in the Dodge Main system to higher pressures for use in the Foundry. There are three major pieces of equipment in the building: a steam-driven, cross-compound unit manufactured by the Bury Air Compressor Company of Bury, Pennsylvania, with two low-pressure cylinders on one side and a single high-pressure cylinder on the other side; a large steam-driven Ingersoil-Rand unit, Imperial Type 10; a synchronous motor, electric-driven (General Electric) cross-compound compressor, with two cylinders made by Jaracki Manufacturing of Erie, Pennsylvania, with the electric motor producing 345 HP at 200 RPM, using 444 volts at 558 Axaps; and finally, a similar, but larger high pressure, cross-compound driven by a G.E. slow-speed synchronous electric motor, operating at 4600 volts at 112.8 Amps and producing 1,140 HP at 120 RPM.
COMPRESSOR BUILDING, FIRST FLOOR,VIEW NORTH, 1980
COMPRESSOR BUILDING, FIRST FLOOR,VIEW NORTH, 1980
COMPRESSOR BUILDING, FIRST FLOOR,VIEW SOUTHEAST, 1980
COMPRESSOR BUILDING, FIRST FLOOR,VIEW SOUTHEAST, 1980