The 800 KVA BEST - Romani Aerogenerator

The use of wind power to produce electricity is a subject in vogue proposed by the ecologist movement.
Many Internet sites in the World and in France are devoted to this subject and my objective is not to discuss here the pro and con.
On the other hand, I did not find any site reporting the existence, from 1955 to 1966, of the great power experimental wind turbine at
Nogent-le-Roi (France).
By chance, my father, Pierre-Jean Cavey, Engineer at the Bureau d'Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques (BEST) created by Lucien Romani, has been responsible of the Station d'Etude de l'Energie du Vent at Nogent-le-Roi from 1956 to 1960.
It seemed to me that by creating this site, joining together pictures and technical datas gathered by Pierre-Jean Cavey more than fifty years ago, could be of some interrest for the visitors.
The information published on this site comes from my father archives and memory. One will excuse the poor quality of the pictures : except for three of them, all are pictures amateur made with the means of that ancien time.