Discussion. The Garry and Moriston Hydro-Electric Schemes.

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introducing the Paper, drew attention to some corrigenda (printed in the December 1958 issue of the Proceedings). He also referred to 0 44, and said that while it had been intended originally to link the tilting-gate operation with turbine control, this had been changed so that the operation of the gate was linked solely to the fluctuating water level of the head-pond. Mr L. H. Dickerson (Chief Civil Engineer, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board)said that the Paper lacked nothing in detail and the form in which it had been presented showed clearly the difference in the nature of the developments of the component parts of the Garry-Moriston group.106. To anyone who had followed the various project proposals of the Gany-Moriston Scheme from the days of the Caledonian Power Scheme of 1936, the step-bystep changes which had been progressively introduced would be very apparent. The Authors had referred to the earliest proposal for a development of Loch Quoich to the west at sea level, where the availability of a maximum head of over 600 ft in about four miles must have been the engineers' dream of a logical and cheap development. They had had, however, to bow before public opinion and to remould the whole scheme in