Electric Lighting in Birmingham: Formation of a Company: Birmingham at last seems to be within measurable distance of the possession of something like a comprehensive scheme of electric light supply. The provisional order obtained last session by Messrs. Chamberlain and Hookham for the supply of electricity within a certain area of the city was, as we announced some time ago, sold to Mr. A. Bromley Holmes, M. Inst. C.E., and Mr. J. Clough Vaudrey, M.Inst. C.E. Engineers of the Liverpool Electric Supply Company, for £3,000 … Mr. Vaudrey as managing director, and Mr. Holmes as consulting, engineer, and Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., as solicitors … (the electricity for his area will be generated at one station, the plant for which will consist of dynamos driven by sets of steam-engines and boilers to arranged that no accident can interfere with the continuity and uniformity of the supply) …
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