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Brush Provincial Electric Lighting Company, Limited, to be allowed
to adopt a two-phase alternating current system for the supply of
energy under their order.
As the Vestry were of opinion that such a current is not so
economic or effective, from a user's point of view, as the continuous
current system, and as the Company had delayed so long the carrying
out of their order in the parish, they passed a resolution asking the
Board of Trade to withhold their consent on those grounds.
The same Company subsequently made an application for the
consent of the Board of Trade for the use of an extra high-pressure
supply, and to this the Vestry expressed their disapproval.
Notwithstanding, however, the opposition of the representative
Authority, the Board of Trade in both cases thought fit to grant the
Company orders consenting to their applications.
tramways.
A letter was received from the London County Council in April,
1899, with regard to certain extensions proposed to be made to the
Tramways in this district. After considering the same the Vestry
passed the following resolutions:—
(1) That the connection between the tramway in New Kent Road and the
Bermondsey New Road line be approved.
(2) That, in the opinion of the Vestry, the tramway lines laid down in St
George's Road should be connected at the North end with the Westminstet
Bridge Road line, and at the southerly end with the lines at the Elephant and
Castle, and that the trams from Westminster Bridge to Peckham and Camberwell,
should be made to run down St. George's Road instead of London Road.
(3) That should the Council be of opinion that the extension of the lint
from Southwark Bridge Road along Borough Road to Newington Causeway
could be capable of being used successfully in connection with their other system
of tramways, such connection should be made.
(4) That, whilst, in the opinion of the Vestry, it is desirable that tramways?
should be extended along Borough High Street between St. George's Church
and the boundary of the Parish, the narrowness and crowded state of the traffic
in that thoroughfare, render it unsuitable in its present condition for tramway
traffic.
A similar communication was received in March, 1900, when in
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addition to the above representations the Vestry expressed the