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story structure 18’- 0” « 60’ - 0” x 24’ - 2” high

with a penthouse on the roof. The roof was two

feet thick, and the room below it had a ceiling

height of 6’- 6”. One end wall was 2’ - 6” thick

and remaining walls. were 2’ - 0” thick. The first
floor consisted of two rooms and an entry. One
room, 10°-0” x 22’-0”’, had four-foot thick
exterior wails. The other room, 14’ - 0” x 22’- 0”,
had two-foot thick exterior walls. This room
had a ming ladder leading to ithe hatch at the
second floor. The entry was a room, 6’ - 0” x 14’0” with two-foot thick external walls. The building rested on a two-foot eight-inch continuous
pad which extended out five feet at the entry,
and which was embedded twofeet six-inches into
the ground. The penthouse. a 10’ - 0” x 33’ - 0" x
17’- 0” high steel angle framed building with
plywood covering, rested on a skew with the
concrete structure.

MECHANICAL. This Station had a dehumidi-

fication system. A half-ton capacity chain hoist
was installed on the second floor. A 2,000 gallon underground tank for diesel fuel oil was
installed outside and adjacent to the Station.

ELECTRICAL. The Station was served by two
Figure 2-138.

Station 1550 - Aerial View

dates varied from 1 October to 20 November
and completion dates varied from 5 January to
23 January 1954. Stations 1403.15 and 1403.16
on Gene were started on 29 March and were
completed on 3 Apmil 1954.

GENERAL. The Station used fc- Project 15.1
(Optical Alpha) was a reinforced concrete two-

ms:

ct

were oe

and receptacles were located as desired by tne
sers.

ENGINEERING. The original criteria were received on 28 July. Additional criteria were received on 6 August, i0 August, 24 September

and 12 October. Design work started on 12
August.

Sixteen drawings and two sketches

were prepared and submitted from 19 August

to 14 September. Approvais were dated from
10 September to 9 October

STATION 1550 - BLOCK HOUSE
SITE GEORGE - USER: LASL

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SOKW diesel engine generator sets. The lighting fixtures were of the standard industrial type

CONSTRUCTION.

Work was scheduled to

commence on 10 October and to be completed

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