Gas v. Electricity for Street Lighting.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 4, 1 February 1906, Page 87

Gas v. Electricity for Street Lighting.

The London correspondent of the Evening Post wn tes • — " After careful investigation and due deliberation it has been decided by the Corporation of the City of London that electricity is far costlier and less efficient than gas, provided, of course, that the latest improvements, including the incandescent mantle, are adopted in gas lighting. Accordingly, the electric light apparatus is being removed throughout the city streets, incandescent gas lamps being substituted, and the Corporation estimate is that fully a year will thus be saved to the city, while a far better light will be obtained, especially m times of fog. It will, of course, be understood that I am referring to the city proper — the small central block with only 75,000 inhabitants, and only to the street lighting. But one or two-of the great railway companies have followed suit m their vast London termini, and count upon a still larger proportion of saving. These little facts will probably be rather an eye-opener for many people who have innocently imagined that electricity has come to revolutionise the world."