Linking Up the Villages

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 March 1930, Page 22

Linking Up the Villages

Electricity in Great Britain GTRANGE as it may seem, Great Britain has been slow to take up the advantages offered by electricity. The delay has been due in the main to the difficulty of providing the necessary capital, but in twelve years, from now, thanks to a great national endeayour, it is estimated that every village will have electric light and .every workshop, electric power. Some £650,000,000 will be sunk in the supply. : In 1907 electrical industries in the Old Country produced material at a cost of £14,000,000, while last year’s output was valued at £86,000,000, more than five times greater than the 1907 output. In 1911, 66,000 workers were employed, as compared with last year 200,000. Before the war electrical exports amounted to £8,000,000; last year, two and a half times that value left English shores. . It is evident that Great Britain is-now rapidly making up for lost time,