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VESTRY OF SAINT MARY, ISLINGTON.
PARTICULARS RELATING TO ELECTRIC LIGHT INSTALLATIONS.
PREPARED PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION OF THE SPECIAL ELECTRIC LIGHTING COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 12th, 1892.
PARISH, BOROUGH,
or
District.
Area in Acres.
Population.
Number of
Inhabited
houses.
System of Electric
Lighting in use.
when adopted, and if
proved satisfactory.
Total
cost of installation.
Area of site of
station.
Length of mains
included in above
cost of installation.
Number of 16 candlepower
lamps provided
for when station
fully loaded, and
number now installed
(including street
lighting, if any).
Number of private
houses or shops
supplied.
Number of units
(actual or estimated
delivered to
consumers during
last completed
year.
Price per unit
charged to private
consumers.
Cost of production
per unit, delivered
to consumer
(including allowance
for depreciation,
redemption fund, &c.
Total percentage of
costs to revenue.
Is there a good
demand for electricity
in the district in
preference to gas
AS TO STREET LIGHTING.
System in use for
street lighting, and
length of streets
lighted.
Number of public
street lamps supplied,
and total estimated
candle power of same.
Number of gas lamps
superseded, and total
estimated candlepower
of same.
Total cost of street
lighting.
Estimated cost
during same period of
gas lamps superseded
(a) Of Parish,
Borough, or District.
(a) Site.
(b) Of District
supplied.
(b) Works, Machinery
and Plant
(c) Mains.
???RINGTON ..
(a) 3,425
38,603
8,000
Mr. Shoolbred, of Victoria St., "Westminster.
is now preparing Plans and
Specifications for an initial scheme to
cost £10,000.
2,000 square yards.
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6d. proposed to be
charged.
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Not known yet.
No Street Lighting yet provided for.
???RADFORD
(a) 10,776
216,361
45,887
Low tension continuous.
Station opened in
Sept.. 1889.
Quite satisfactory.
(a) A Ground Rent
of £167 16s. is
paid.
60 feet × 150 feet.
19 Miles.
10,000 provided for.
About 18,000
installed
The lighting is
chiefly for shops
and business premises.
About 200
use the light.
154,431 for halfyear
ending Dec.
31st, 1891.
5d. for lighting
purposes, and 4½d.
for motive power.
4.04d.
67.33
Yes.
Number of Lamps
fixed Jan. 1st, 1891,
8,467; ditto, Dec.
31st, 1891, 15,000.
No Public Lighting is done.
(b) 25,000 sq. yds.
(b) £34,183
(c) £6,255
???RIGHTON
(Corporation.)
(a) 2,620
116,424
19,619
Low tension.
Quite satisfactory.
(a) £2,500
About 912 sq. yds.
4 Miles.
10,000, with a maximum
of 5,000 in use
at one time.
About 5,272 lamps
installed.
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First complete year
will not expire
until 31st Dec., 1892
7d.
Supply commenced in October, 1891,
and accounts for first complete year will
not be made up until after Dec. 31st.
Yes.
None at present. The Council are about to consider proposals for this purpose.
(b) £19,400
(b) At present 218½
acres, but the Council
are about to extend
the area of
supply to 622½ acres.
(c) £13,500
???GHTON
(Company.)
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High tension alternating
transformer
system. Adopted
1881. Quite satisfactory.
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15 miles of cable
overhead.
8,000 at present
supplied.
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7d. per unit,
with discounts down
to 3½d.
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Yes. Extensions in
mains being continually
made.
No Public Street Lighting
???NLEY
The Council have at present tenders for an installation under consideration.
???ION-UPON-TRENT
(a) 4,025
46,051
8,904
The Corporation have only just obtained the sanction of the Board of Trade to a system, and are applying to the Local Government Board for sanction to borrow the money so that the
works will not be completed for perhaps twelve months.
The Corporation own the Gas Works and supply the public lamps.
???ENTRY
The question of Electric Lighting is under consideration in this city, but nothing has at present been done beyond obtaining estimates and schemes from electrical companies for the lighting, which schemes are now
under consideration.
???SBURY
Supply not yet commenced, but advertisements for tenders for the supply of the necessary plant, &c., are being issued.
???ER
No Installation has yet been completed here. The Corporation are still in negociation with the Brush Company as to an agreement.
???DEE
(a) 4,099
156,000
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Low tension continuous
current, but
not yet in use.
Approximately
about £25,000
in all.
29 poles, 10 yards.
Distribution mains
about 3,515 yards.
Feeder mains, 1,150
yards.
5,000
None as yet.
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5d. proposed to be
charged.
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Not as yet known.
(b) 102
(Compulsory).
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50,000
10,000
High tension alternating
current with
transformers.
Quite satisfactory.
(a) £1,000 (including
building).
660 square yards.
9 miles.
10,000 provided for
3,000 installed.
120
147,000
7½d. by meter, and
1s. per candle power
per annum, by
contract.
5¾d.
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Large and increasing
demand.
None.
(b) £7,000.
(c) £4,000
(approximate).
† FLEETWOOD
Tenders now under consideration.
Great competition for the district from various companies.
GLASGOW
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560,000
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Low tension
(not yet started).
About £60,000.
980 square yards.
About 7 miles.
12,000
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7d
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Brush arc lamps
3 miles.
106 to be supplied
of 2,000 nominal c.p.
each.
360 Pillars.
588 Burners.
About £8,000 for
plant.
£1,334 6s. 10d. gas
per annum. Maintenance
3/11 per
lamp. Lighting and
lamp
†HANLEY
(a) 1,768
56,000
11,000
(System proposed
to be used).
High tension alternating
current,
with low tension
distributing
work from converting
stations in the
Compulsory area.
(Estimated)
£21,000
Proposed site,
1 acre.
3,450 high tension
mains.
5,000 16 candlepower
lamps, all
lighted at same time.
300,000 Watts with
spare plant for one-
third more.
20-2,000 n.c.p. arc
lamps for street
lighting.
Contract made with Brush Company,
but not yet commenced operations.
Contract for scheme entered into, but the sanction to borrow has not yet been
received from the Local Government Board.
(Proposed to be
adopted).
Continuous current,
lamps in series,
2 miles 640 yards
'of cables.
20-2,000 n.c.p. lamps
or 30-1,200.
If 30 lamps are
stalled, 5o gas lamps
superseded, having
total candle power
of 4,000 candles.
First cost £1,796
included in contract.
Estimated annual
cost of working,
£320,
If 20 lamps as
before, £220;
if 30, £304
3,150 low tension
mains.
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HASTINGS
The Corporation have not established electric light works of their own. The electric lamps on the front line are lighted by a local company under contract with the Council.
HOVE
The Hove Commissioners have transferred their power to a company, "Hove Electric lighting Company." Deed of transfer not yet approved by Board of Trade, but there is every reason to suppose it will be.
†HUDDEESFIELD
(a) 11,788
95,417
20,930
The system is not
yet in use, but
will be a high tension
(2,000 volts
alternating current
supply to
former stations.
When completed
will be about
£30,000
(site leasehold on
ground rent).
4,000 yards.
3,000 yards primary,
high tension, 6,000
yards low tension
Present contract will
include machinery
to supply 4,000
16 candle-power
lamps.
System not yet in
operation.
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6d.
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Yes
Gas.
†KINGSTON-UPON-HULL
(a) 7,901
204,75
49,810
Low tension direct
with accumulators.
(a) Rent charge of
£100 a year.
4,340 square feet.
4,500 yards.
4,500 burning
simultaneously,8,000
ditto when station
fully extended. At
present about 1,500
installed.
Works started in
December, 1892.
7d.
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Very likely to be.
Nothing being done in this direction at present.
(b) 125, to be extended
to 250 acres.
(b) £14,900
(c) £10,100