Acetylene Gas.
♦ 11 The Building, Engineering and Mining Journal " says the Acetylene Gas Company of Australasia, Ltd., has secured a contract to illuminate the Sydney Cricket Ground for Evening Bicycle Races and other entertainments this summer. The contract has been given by the ground authorities after a series of careful tests with a small trial installation, which lit up a section of the track. Last year this ground was illuminated for similar purposes with electric light, so that Acetylene appears to have achieved a distinct triumph. The work is being put in hand immediately, and the League of Wheelmen are preparing to run a night's racing under the Acetylene about the 22nd inst. This installation has a very direct bearing on the question of town lighting with Acetylene. Some 2000 burners will be used to light up the track, and perhaps as many more will be arranged about the various buildings and on the hills and fawns. If this big installation is a success* there will remain no question as to the suitability of the gas for towns. Four thousand burners would light the streets of a big town-, and there is little doubt that country aldermen will flock to this year's evening bicycle races for other purposes than love of cycling.
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Manawatu Herald, 1 February 1900, Page 3
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212Acetylene Gas. Manawatu Herald, 1 February 1900, Page 3
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