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The Edison Company proposed to take all the streets
and places south of Holborn and Great Queen Street;
the Metropolitan Brush Company the entire District of
the Board; the Pilsen Joel Company the south side of
Holborn, Great Queen Street, and streets running thereinto;
and the Swan Company other parts of the District.
The Draft Provisional Orders were forwarded to the
Board by the several Companies, except the Swan Company,
which abandoned their notice to supply any portion
of the District. Very serious objections arose on consideration
of such Draft Orders, and the Board were requested
by the Board of Trade to forward their objections to the
same. After long and careful consideration and consultation
with counsel and a celebrated electrician, these objections
were lodged with that Board; and after some time,
that Board prepared and issued long and special conditions
to be incorporated in all such Orders, and subsequently
held a Meeting at Westminster Session House, of which
notice was given to vestries and district boards whose
areas were proposed to be dealt with. At such Meeting,
on the 10th day of May, 1883, the Edison Company withdrew
their notice of application for a Provisional Order,
as also did the Swan Company; and after long deliberation
and debate it was agreed that the Metropolitan Brush
Company should comprise in their Order the north side
of High Holborn and New Oxford Street, and the east
side of Tottenham Court Road up to Bayley Street; and
the Pilsen Joel Company the south side of High Holborn
and New Oxford Street to Little Queen Street. The rest
of the District remains unprovided for.
The Board of Trade has approved of these terms, and