BIG ALLIS GENERATOR

the name of an electric generating unit that served the New York area and which was the world's largest generator when put into service in 1965. However, during the huge blackout of the Northeastern United States and Canada on 9 November 1965, caused by a failure to an electrical relay system in Ontario, Big Allis was badly damaged. From that point onward she was plagued by mechanical problems, some of which resulted in loss of power to parts of the New York City area, resulting in public complaints of poor service by the utility company. Big Allis got her name from her maker, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company.