LIST OF ELECTRIC LIGHTING CENTRAL STATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Date of provisional order of license. The period at which the lighting commenced. System of lighting used, and names of makers of dynamos. Power used. Engines and boilers and their horse-power. Total number of arc lamps now in use.C.P., and cost per hour. Total number of incandescent lamps now in use, C.P., and cost per hour. Number of arc lamps and incandescent used in street lighting. Number of lamps added during the past twelve months. The present arrangement for carrying out the lighting. Present capacity in lamps of generating station. Description of mains. Length of mains now laid. Cost of e on i'. ruction of central stations. Percentage of the indicated engine power obtained at the terminals of the dynamo under conditions of normal work. Coal consumption per hour for a unit, 1,000 watts delivered at dynamo terminals. Prices per ton and quality of coal. Price per unit. Cost of street lighting (if any) compared with gas. Price of gas per 1,000 feet. Name and address of enginecer-in-chief. Additional remarks. Total cost of mains. Total works' cost per unit. Total cost per unit, including depreciation, redemption, and management charges. Approximate number of units generated during six months. Number of units consumed during six months. Yearly revenue per 8-C.P. lamp. Average dailj consumption of watts : daily output in watts for six months. City, town, or district. Name of company, ST. AUSTELL Veale and Co., Ltd. ... March, 1886 ... Low tension Steam ,,, Compound engines 170 II.1'. 1,300 16-C.P Underground Welsh Is. 3d. per hour for 16 C.P. 4s. 6d..... J. M. Coon I Several motors are used for printing, grinding, stonemasons' work, Ac. BATH BIRMINGHAM City of Bath Electric Lighting Co. Birmingham Electric Supply Co., Ltd. June, 1891 August, 1889 ... June 24th, 1890... April, 1891 Thomson-Houston for street lighting, Brush alternating Cor private lighting Low tension Crompton dynamos Steam ... Steam ... Babcoek-Wilcox boilers, Rsiworth's engines 600 H.P Willans ;in(i Robinson steel Lancashire type 10 1,200-C.P. 38 ares, 1,500-C.P. 6,200 8-C.P 7,900 16-C.P 84 arcs 2,200 18 ares, 2,700 16-C.P. Contract for seven years Provisional order 10,000 incandescent, 200 arcs 10,000 16-C.P., ultimate capacity 25,000 lamps Underground, Calender's solid system I'ndCi-nToiiiKl, Crompton culvert with copper strip for feeders; Calender's solid system for distributing mains Underground Siemens armoured cable 40 6,260 yards £35,000 101b. ... ; 6d 8d Double ... 2s. 8d. ... 2s. 7d. ... M.C.Ollsson J. C. Vaudrey, M.I.E.E., 14, Dale End, Birmingham £8,000 BRADFORD Corporation Two-wire low tension Siemens dynamos and batteries Thomson-Houston are lighter Steam Willans engines Lancashire boilers £mile Lamps ran during summer season Motive power hired from saw mill 18 arcs of 1,200 C.P. ... R. Rail ton Brown ... j BRIDLINGTON Local authority 1890 1883 1891 ' Two-wire low tension Goolden dynamos Steam ... Willans engines and Lancashire boilers Fowler boilers and engines Equal to 11,800 8-C.P. 8,000 8,000 8-C.P ' Underground armoured cables 4 miles £41,000 Welsh, 21s • 7d 2s. 9d.... Arthur Wright 107,000 ... 97,000 maximum output BRIGHTON' Corporation 14 miles BRIGHTON Brighton and Hove Electric Light Co. Buckingham Electric Light Co. (private) G. II. Reed Alternating cm-rent transformers Steam ... 16,000 8-C.P Overhead insulated cables 7d 2s. 9d.... G.J. Philpot 1839 ' 1890 Low pressure and accumulators. Two Elwell-Parker dynamos Alternating transformer (Hedgehog) Siemens Bros, dynamos Alternating current and continuous arc lighting Steam and water Water ... 20 H.P. by water, 20 by steam 3,004 16-C.P None 50 License Overhead 600 or 800 yards ... £1,200 No data 25s. per lamp per annum £1 per year, 16 C.P.... 4s. 6d. ... Rogers and Son BUCKINGHAM Contract Underground, lead-covered paraffin paper insulation Overhead and underground 1,800 yards £2,000 CHAGFORD Sept. 1st, 1891 ... Multi-Lancashire and Paxman boilers, Willans engines 19 10-amperes 300 8-O.P. ... 1,500 private, 1,000 street, 8-C.P. 20 32-C.P 19 arcs, 250 32-C.P. in. 1,000 Board of Trade < license 4,000 - 14 miles of street... £14,000 75 percent 6-3 lb. Welsh Is. to 6d. sliding scale; first year averages 7d. 6d. per hour for arcs Same 6s. 8d. ... 4s. 6d. ... George Reed, The Factory, Chagford A. H. Pott CHELMSFORD Crompton and Co. 1890 May 14th, 1890... steam ... 47,600 ... 10s. 6d. COWPEN QUAY and WATERLOO, BLYTII Sanderson and Co. ... Brush arc lamp in series Steam Babcock boiler, Chandler engine ... 19 2,000-C.P Only nine in station 19arclamps Contract for live : years 25 lamps of 2,000-C.P. Overhead fluid insulator About 4 miles £2,000 Stated to he 85 per ceut 14 lb., 6s. per ton ... . 3s. 9d.... R. S. Mytton ' This company does street lighting onlyCorporation 1890 and 1892 ... September, 1892 : High tension alternating for incandescent direct Tor are currents Lowrie-Parker alternators and LowrieHall transformers in parallel, transforming from 1,800 to 100 in consumers' houses. Series circuit for arc lighting ; Brush arc machines Hish tension alternating (.Mordey). High tension series arc (ThomsonHouston) Steam 3 compound engines of 350 H.P. 3 compound 751 H.P. Fowler and Co.'s engines and boilers, total engine H.P. 400 80 arcs Of 1,200-C.P. ... 1,200 16-C.P 80 10-000 8-C.P. Underground vulcanised rubber in cast-iron pipes Underground insulated cables drawn into cast-iron pipes 20 miles £81,000 Welsh 7d 3s. M. Ruddle DUBLIN 1,000 License . 9 miles 70 per cent 91b., Best Welsh, 23s. per ton 9d H. W. Wilkinson, Central Station, Eastbourne Electric Light Company EASTBOURNE Eastbourne Elec. Light Co mpany 1891 Feb., 1882 Steam 20 2,000-C.P 7,000 8-C.P 16 are lamps 4,500 16-C.P 9d. ' ... 110,000 ., 10s. EXETER Exeter Electrio Light Co. 1891 September, 1889 Steam ... Two compound horizontal noncondensing 120 H.P., each by Fowler; and two Wesl.iughousc triple expansion of 25 H.P. Ransomc, Sims and Co. com. engine 35 of 1,200-C.P. 4,000 8-C.P None 1,300 8-C.P.,.. Provisional order 7,000 8-C.P,; 60 arcs Fowler-Waring underground cable (concentric) About 9 miles £16,000 Over 85 per cent, at full load 10-8 lb Nixon's Navigation 7jd., or by contract, Is. per C.P. T. P. Wilmshurst, Electric Light Station, Exeter £4,000 ... 2-4d. ... 5d. ... 85,000 ... 8s. by contract, lis. by meter 114,000 maximum load 3s. Id.... FARE11AM Farcham Electric Light Co. Galway Electric Co. ... Kepiember 1st, 1890 June, 1889 Thomson-Houston Steam 21 1,200-C.P. 92 20-C.P,, 320 16-C.P. 20 arcs; 90 incand. Contract forthree years Provisional order Overhead and underground lOmiles £5,000 (with mains),.. Welsh Is. per C.P.per annum About the same 3s. 9d.... Meters being put in, 8d. per unit Water power (13 feet head) obtained from lake 15 by 20 miles 20,000 1890 Low tension, Crompton and Statter dynamos Water power 2 100-II.P. Hercules turbines, 12-foot fall 2 2,000-C.P. Lid. per hour 340 8-C.P., 2 500-C.P., 3 200-C.P., 3d. per hour Two ares 150 8-O.P. ... 3,000 to 4,000 8-C.P.... Underground and overhead 4 miles nd 5s. 9d.... J. E. Pearce, Electric Light Co., Galway 16,000 GALWAY GLASGOW Corporation Low pressure three-wire Willans engines 12,000 ... Bare copper in culverts 7d 2s, 9d.... W. Arnot HALIFAX Hal ifax Mutual Electric Light and Power Supply Co., Ltd. Hastings and St. Leonard's Electric Light Co. Keswick Electric Light Co. None January, 1889 .,. Low tension, two-wire, 110 volts. Blakcy, Emmott, and Co.'s dynamos Steam ... Two Lancashire boilers, 150 I.H.P. each 80 2,000-CP. (lOd.) ... 400 16-C.P None 100 16-C.P., 10 arcs 2,000 lamps of 8-C.P. At present fully loaded Overhead wires 10 miles 8d., or by contract... 2s. 2d.... Managing Director W. Emmott HASTINGS Alternate current transformer, Mordey Steam Brush ... 4,000 8-C.P Underground 30 miles 9fi. 3s. 9d. ... E. T. Mercer KESWICK No Provisional order Sept. 1st., 1889... Alternate current transformers (Kapp 30 unit made by Johnson and Phillips) Direct current, 110 volts, Siemens and Crompton dynamos Water ... Turbines (Victor) 63 H.P 1 300-C.P. Is. per hour 730 17-C.P Contract Overhead on Johnson and Phillips fluid insulators Is. per C.P. per annum 4s. W. R. Rice, engineer in charge LIVERPOOL Liverpool Electric Supply Co. 1839, 1891, and 1892 1883 Steam ... Willans engines, Lancashire boilers 2,000 H.P. indicated 20 1,000-C.P. to 2,000C.P. each 18,000 16-C.P. None 2,000 16-C.P. Provisional orders . 37,000 16-C.P. Underground Callender system ... 50 miles 71-i 3s. A. Bromley Holmes ... 350,000 LONDON DISTRICTS :— BELGRAVIA and PIMLICO March 2nd., 1891 Steam Willans and Davey-Paxman engines, Davey - Paxman '' Economic " boilers and Eraser of same hind. Total I.H.P. 760 (not yet condensing). 7 Wiliansruid itobhisrm G.C.orif.dnos 80 I.H.P., two Willans and Roblnson II. H. engines 125 I.H.P. Babcock and Mill's boilers Total three stations 98.320 8-O.P. None Provisional order ; 30,800 8-C.P Underground copper in Kennedy type culverts. Insulated cablein Callender conduit Total length of streets in which mains have been laid, 8'8 miles No data 5-7 for December ... 7d. perBoard of Trade unit Prof. A. B. W. Kennedy, F.R.S., M.I.C.E. Westminster Electric Supply Corporation August 26,1889... Generation at 200, and distribution in two parallels of 100 volts each. Battery in parallel with 200-volt dynamo, Crompton and Siemens dynamos how pressure and secondary batteries (E.P.S.) in sub-stations with continuous current motor transformers, constant pressure at feeding points. Elwell-Parker dynamo Three-wire continuous low-pressure currents from dvnamos by Siemens Bros., and Latimer Clark, Muirhead CHELSEA parish and a portion of KENSINGTON parish. Chelsea Electricity Supply Co., Ltd. Sept. 1886, for Chelsea ; Aug. 1889, for Kensington September, 1889 Steam ... Two 35,000 8-C.P None 8,000 8-C.P.... Provisional order 40,000 8-C.P Underground Callender-Webber bitumen, concrete conduits anil Calender's bitumen cable. Drawingin system and feeding points About 20 miles ... No data Welsh 8d. per Board of Trade unit 3s. Id,... Frank King. ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER St. James's and Pall Mall Electric Light Co., Ltd. April llh, 1839 ... Steam ... Willans engines, 3,300 indicated H.P., six Davcv-I'axman locoboilers, 3,600 effective H.P. About 50 scattered over the district 45,000 8-C.P 8,000 8-C.P.... Provisional order 60,000 8-C.P., 100,000 wired Underground bare copper strip on porcelain insuhitors in iron culvert armoured cable, iron pipes and vulcan. rubber services UiidiiruTnuiid copper strip in culvert and Henley's cable in iron pipes, three-wire and feeder systems 8 miles, including s or vices and small cable runs Over 80 per cent. ... Average of 7 lb. throughout the year (1891) Welsh Bestin anyone month, 6'5 lb. Welsh 7d 3s. Id, ... Sydney T. Dobson, A.M.I.C.E., of Mason's Yd., Duke Street, St. James's. R.E. Crompton, Mans ion House Buildings, E.G. License, 1888; provisional order 1890 KENSINGTON Kensington and Knightsbridge Electric Lighting Co., Ltd. Licenses and provisional orders obtained, 1887 and 1888 1889 Jan., 1887 Low tension with secondary batteries, Siemens and Crompton and Co., dynamos Steam ... Willans engines, 1,800 H.P., Babcock boilers, 2,180 H.P. 46,039 8-C.P 9,203 8-C.P.... Provisional order 56,865 8-C.P 11 miles and 700 yards 83 per cent, full load, 76 per cent, half, Mean 81 per cent. 8d,, with rebate to large consumers according to scale 3s. Id, ... LONDON 1889 High tension, 10,000 volts, Ferranti ... Steam ... Hick Hargreaves 95 47,000 16-C.P 16,000 100,000 Underground concentric 70 miles Welsh, 15s. 6d. 7d 2s. 6d. and 3s. P. Walter d'Alton. LONDON Electric Supply Corporation Metropolitan Electric Supply "House to HouseEIectric Supply Co., Ltd. Low pressure, continuous moderate pressure Alternating currou I transformer system. Lowrie-Hall Compound horizontal engines and water tube boilers, about 1,100 H P. total Willans and Robinson 1,000 H.P. .., 126,000 Of 8-C.P. ... 25,000 10-C.P., about Is. 4d. per hour None 4,000 10-C.P. Provisional order 30,000 8-O.P. lamps installed Underground in cast-iron pipes ,., 26 miles No data Anthracite 7Jd. 8d„ subject to discounts Albert Gay ST. MARY ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON 1889 March, 1889 ... Steam ... £18,800 October 29th, 1890 i Direct current, low tension, 100 volts. Mather and Piatt dynamos Steam 10 2,000-C.P 25,000 8-C.P None 15,000 8-C.P, Provisional order 45,000 8-C.P Underground Callender cables run in Callender bitumen casing 11 miles No data 7id 3s. Id. ... H. A. Earle, Mather and Piatt, 16 Victoria street, S.W. Prof. Kennedy. ST. MARTINS-IN-THE FIELDS Electricity Supply Corporation, Ltd. No data MAYFAIR Westminster Electrio Supply Corporation, Ltd. August 26th, 1889 March 21th, 1891 This station is still working on two-wire system with baticries in parallel with dynamos, but is about to he changed over. Elwell-Parker and Crompton dynamos Direct current Crompton's dynamos ... Steam Willans engines, I'axiuan "Economic" boilers, and similar boilers by Fraser, Total 1,560 I.H.P., noncondensing About six arcs None Provisional order 62,500 8-C.P Underground copper in Kennedy type culvert. Insulated cable in Callender conduits Total length of streets in which mains have been laid, 9-5 miles 7d NOTTING HILL Notting Hill Electric Light Company May, 1891 Steam Willans engines, Babcock and Wilcox boilers Seven 10,000 8-C.P 2,500 Provisional order 20,000 Underground, three-wire system ... Smiles £20,000 75 per cent Between 8 and 9 lb. 8d 3s. Id. ... George Schulz, Central Station, Bulmer Place, W. J. T. Baron, M.I.E.E., Vestry Hall, St. Pancras Prof. A. B. W. Kennedy. I0s. ST. PANCRAS WESTMINSTER Electricity department of the Vestry Westminster Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd. 1883 ... . ... Aug, 26th, 1889... Nov. 9th, 1891 ... Nov. 11th, 1890... Continuous current 110 volts, three-wire system Kapjfs multipolar dynamos Generation at 200 volts rind distribution in two parallels of 100 volts each; batteries in parallel with 200-volt dynamos, Goolden, and Mather and Piatt Alternate cm-rent transformer Steam . Steam Willans triple expansion engines, Babcock and Wilcox boilers Willans endues, Babcock boilers, total I.H.P. of engines 1,120 (not yet condensing! About a dozen arcs ... 11,000 16-C.P 86 arcs being erected None 8,000 Provisional order Provisional order 10,000 16-C.P., 90 arcs 45,009 8-C.P Underground culvert. Bare copper strip on insulators Under;;™.]id. Copper in Crompton culverts and insulated cable in pipes and casing 5i miles Total length of streets in which mains are laid, 4:8 miles £92,000, including mains No data No data 6d.; and 3d. for day supply 7d 2s. 9d, ... 3s. £34,894 LYNTON Hans H. Benn Water ... 0. L. Hett's turbine 1,200 8-C.P 378 C.P. Hans H. Benn NEWCASTLE Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Co.. Ltd. Newcastle Electric Supply Co. Alternate current transformer Steam Parsons's turbines 10,500 License Ultimate capacity will be 50,000 Underground 4£d Is. 9£d. W. O. Hunter NEWCASTLE 1890 1890 Alternate current transformer 2,000 volts, Mordey Steam Robey engines, Lancashire boiler ... 14,366 8-C.P Underground concentric cables ... 10 miles 46 per cent. 21 lb. steam coal 5s. lOd. 4|d Is. lOd. Figures given are for twelvemonths' working 2'9d. ... 327,821 ... 244,470 NORTHAMPTON Northampton Electric Light and Power Co., Ltd. 1890 March, 1891 ... Direct current low tension, Crompton dynamos Steam . Three Scott and Hodgson's compound engines, 120 I.H.P. each; two Daniel Afiamson Lancashire boilers,-13e lbs-steam . Marshall and"Co 20 from 5 to 20 amperes 4,000 8-C.P 7 100-C.P. 1,000 8-C.P.... Provisional order 1 7,000 8-C.P Crompton's underground mains .., 2 miles £7,000 No data Hard Steam, I2s. 9d. 9d. a unit, subject to 10 per cent, discount 2s. 41. ... B. R. Beale, Angel Lane, Northampton 30,000 NOTTINGHAM March, 1891 ... Low tension, Clark, Muirhead and Co.... Steaira 4 arcs, 2,000-C.P. 600 16-C.P 200 License 57016-C.P. Overhead wires" 1 mile £3,000 10s. 3d 7d. or30s.perl6-C,P. per annum 8d 2a. ihr... J. Parr OXFORD PRESCOT Muirhead and Co. Oxford Electric Light Co. British Insulated Wire Co. National Electric Supply Co., Ltd., Preston June, 1S92 September, 1892 H.T. continuous Parker dynamos motor generator transformers at sub-sta-Brush alternating system Steam Steam Triple expansion surface condensing engines, locomotive boilers Raworth, Browett, and Taugye ... 16 1,200-C.P 12 2,000-C.P 6,000 8-C.P l.OCO 12-C.P 16 arcs 12 arcs All since June, 1892 P.O. 15,000 8-C.P 5,000 H.T. Silvertown, L.T. Calender's lead-covered Underground B.I.W. system 8 miles L.T., 7 miles H.T. 12 miles 5 miles £7,000 approximate 80 per cent Welsh Steam coal Slack 7d 4s. Sd. ... J.H. M. McLean £3,000... 40,000 ., 10s.6d.tol6s. 6s. 8d. 100,000 daily output PRESTON ' 1890 October, 1890; temporary plan! Three-wire low tension system, Latimer ; Clark, Muirhead, and Co. Steam Belli s compound Fifty 6,000 8-C.P 3,000 8-C.P.; 30 arcs 30,000 8-C.P Underground 3-wire 15 per cent, discount if paid within 21 days Arc by contract. Incandescent by meter 3s. 9d.,.. F. F. Bennet, Laurel Villas, Ashton - onRibble, Preston F. F. Yeatman, The Island, Reading Transformed from temporary to permanent station 41,000 ... READING Laing, Wharton, and Down Syndicate March, 1889 ... Thomson-Houston Steam Two Browett-Lindley 25 H.P. and Westinghouse, one al 50 II.P., one at 25 H.P. 71 arcs of 1,200-C.P. ... 600 8-C.P Agreement with Corporation Plant fully loaded ... Overhead 4$ miles No data Coke 3s. SHEFFIELD... Sheffield Electric Light and Power Co. Alternate current transformer Steam 6,000 8-C.P Company object to give details on account of alterations 12,200 SOUTHAMPTON Southampton Electric Light Co. 1890 May, 1891 Low tension three-wires with batteries, Crompton dynamos SteamTwo Marshall boilers, 20 and 40 N.H.P.; one Robey 40 N.H.P. engine; Willans, 60 Willans 13 arcs 2,500 8-C.P None 1,600 . License 2,700 8-C.P. Underground Crompton system ... 1$ miles £4,200 34,000 Welsh at 17s. 9d. ... 10d,, with rebate 2s. lOd. K. A. Scott-Moncrieff... £6,000... 3'5d .,. 24,000 ... 22,000 ... TAUNTON Taunton Electric Light Co. Electric Light Co., Ltd. Wevbridge Electric - Light Co. Water lord Electric Light Co. 1886 Thomson-Houston .". Steam; 78 arcs 920 16-C.P 37 arcs 7 arcs and 500 8-O.P. Provisional Order 1 90 arcs, 1,300 16-C.P. , Overhead and underground , Smiles , 3 miles £3,000 16s. per ton . 6d 3s. Bd. ... H. E. Hunt THETFORD August, 1888 ... Lawrence, Scott dynamos Steam Burrell and Sous' engines, 1-25 H.P. 1-10 H.P. Two 75 H.P. compound engines; one 100 H.P. boiler 120 H.P. Fowler (horizontal), 120 Marshall, two loco, boilers 20 500-C.P 450 16-C.P P.O. 1,000 16-C.P Overhead Cobbles, 17s. 6d. ... . 8d . R. Carter WEYBRIDGE June, 1891 March, 1890 ... Thomson-Houston system - ... Steam 50016-C.P. 120 16-C.P 3,500 16-C.P. Provisional order 1,200 Overhead . 7 miles 91b . 9d 4s. 6d. ... . Percy Mossop, Weybridge Electric Works . P. Peters, Elec. Light DepOt, Waterford F.G.Ansell Street lamps are lit only from Oct. 1st to April 1st WATERFORD September, 1887 Thomson-Houston system, four T.-H. arc dynamos, and two T.-H. composite field alternators Two-wire 200 volts, Elwell-Parker Steam 34 1,200-C.P None 34 1,200-C.P., back streets lighted by oil 20incan Contract Working at full capa- • city • Overhead No data 4s. ea.... October, 1888 ... Steam and water 220 5 public Public subscriptions . Overhead bare copper wires , 2£ miles £700 Forest of Dean, 10s. per ton None made WI0KWAB, Davey-Paxman 60 I.H.P., Adams 15 I.H.P., one 36 feet overshot waterwheel ■ 240 16-C.P £70 ... 4d 4,000