original DC equipment remained in use. Again by circa 1915, this had become inadequate, and to ease the problem a new turbine coupled to an American 800 kW alternator was added alongside the existing machinery at the eastern end of the machine hall in 1921/2. To drive this new turbine a timber flume and a masonry aqueduct was constructed, running from Deadman's Hollow around the bend in the South Esk River to the slope immediately behind the Power Station, where it was led into a new steel penstock running alongside the original one. The addition of this new turbine and alternator raised the capacity of the station to . In the photograph above, the left-hand penstock is the newer one. One of the original Siemens Bros. and Co. 15 kW DC dynamos, dating from 1895, direct coupled to a dynamo, is preserved and on display in the far end of the station. The power station was taken over by the Hydro-Electric Commission in 1945, and decommissioned in 1955, following the construction of the Trevallyn Dam and power station. Duck Reach Museum The suggestion to create a museum at Duck Reach was first mooted in December 1956 in a letter to the editor of Examiner by Mr Michael Sharland of Hobart. In his letter of 17 December 1956 he suggested that the Duck Reach Power Station, with state backing of the Launceston City Council, be established as a technological museum. Mr Sharland at that time was Secretary of the Scenery Preservation Board and an authority on early Tasmanian buildings. The Mayor of Launceston, Alderman Edwards, supported the idea saying that only a little money would be needed to convert the station. At that time the station was kept in good order by three men even though the station had been closed for some time. In fact one of the six generators was kept in good order to light the building and office. Later that month, in another letter Mr A.R. Evershed of Launceston endorsed Mr Sharland’s letter stating that ‘probably the original plant was the first, or one of the first high tension alternating current hydroelectric plants for long transmission in the world’ and that ‘it would certainly be a crime to destroy such interesting historical matter’. In late March 1957 the state Hydro Electric Commission offered the station to the Launceston City Council stating that ‘if it is left unattended