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"invested must reach half-a-million of money, but it is of no
"consequence what is spent if a good profit can be shewn upon
"the outlay." With this opinion, your Sub-Committee to some
extent agrees, although it doubts the wisdom of placing so heavy
a mortgage as half-a-million of money upon the parish solely
for electric lighting purposes. The first year's working of this
installation is, in the opinion of your Sub-Committee, satisfactory
on the whole.
Your Sub-Committee refrains from expressing any opinion as to the
advantages of the low tension system for so large a parish as St.
Pancras. Whether the same system will be adopted for the remainder
of the parish remains to be seen. The price charged by the
Vestry is 6d. per Board of Trade unit.
Bradford.
The deputation appointed to inspect the installation carried out by the
Corporation of Bradford visited that town on the 15th February.
The deputation, which consisted of the Chairman of the Committee
(Mr. Samuel Lambert) Mr. T. W. Vine, Mr. F. T. Bailey, Mr. A. J.
Fearnhead, and the Chief Clerk to the Vestry, was very courteously
received by the Mayor (Alderman Oddy), the Town Clerk (Mr. W.
T. McGowen), and the Electrical Engineer (Mr. Sydney Baines).
The Corporation (which, it should be stated, also owns the gasworks)
has spent a sum of nearly £50,000 on the installation, and at the
present time has about 20,000 8 c.p. lamps installed. The Corporation
has adopted the continuous current at low tension (with two
wire parallel arrangement) and is now supplying energy for lighting
and motor power to about 250 consumers within a somewhat limited
area. Accumulators are used, and until recently the station was
closed at night, the supply being taken from the batteries, but at the
time of the deputation's visit, arrangements had been made for at
least one man to be on duty all night. The town is well lighted
by gas, the price of which is 2s. 1d. per 1,000 cubic feet to private
customers, and at present the Corporation does not propose lighting
any of its streets with electricity. The plant consists of seven engines
of the inverted vertical type, two being of 300 indicated h.p., two
of 90 indicated h.p., and three of 150 indicated h.p., all, with one