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In January of this year (1911) the Engineer of the Wandsworth
and Putney Gas Company intimated to me that his Company
considered they also had a right to use the new Brentford Burner
for testing their Gas, and requested me to put the matter before
the Wandsworth Borough Council. This I accordingly did and
after consideration by the Council I finally reported on the whole
matter at length on February nth, 1911, and made the following
suggestions:—
(1) That inasmuch as the new Brentford Burner so
closely resembled the new Standard Burner (Metropolitan
Argand No. 2) now in general use by the Metropolitan and
other gas companies, and further since the Wandsworth and
Putney Gas Company had previously expressed a desire to
adopt this latter Burner (having assisted originally in promoting
the Standard Burner Bill above alluded to) I suggested
that for the sake of uniformity they should adopt this Standard
Burner instead of the new Brentford Burner.
(2) That inasmuch as a change was proposed to be made
in connection with the testing of the Illuminating Power of
the gas, the occasion seemed a favourable one for instituting
at the same time tests for the Calorific Power of the Gas.
The Company agreed to use the Metropolitan Argand Burne
No. 2 for testing the Gas and to provide the necessary apparatus for
testing the Calorific Power.
Mitcham and Wimbledon Gas Company.
I have made the usual tests of Illuminating Power, Sulphuretted
Hydrogen and Pressure of this Gas at the testing place in
Haydon's Road, South Wimbledon, and my results are shewn in
Table II. annexed to this report.
It will be seen that the average Illuminating Power for the
Illuminating whole year ended 31st March, 1911, is 15.8 candles
power. with a minimum of 15.2 candles (December, 1910)
and a maximum of 16.8 candles (November, 1910) the statutory
Illuminating Power being 15 candles.