PICCADILLY CIRCUS
NEW LIGHTING SYSTEM BRIGHTEST THOROUGHFARE IN EUROPE. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph —Copyright. IuJGBY, April 16. (Received April 18, at 11.30 a.m.) Lamp standards, 26ft high and weighing one and a-quarter tons each, were being erected in Piccadilly Circus, London, to-day as part of the new electric lighting system, which it is believed will make the thoroughfare the brightest place in Europe and in the Empire. The power used will be 60,000 watts, or 1,000 times the power with which people ordinarily read by in their homes.
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Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 7
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91PICCADILLY CIRCUS Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 7
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