Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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88 27 June [1881] Letter, from Denny Lane, London, England, to Mr. O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. Lane has seen Mr Alexander Siemens, in charge of the electric light department who ‘laughs at the idea of the [electric light] …gas companies’ and the ‘very high price …they charged for putting up the apparatus in the City’. Lane made a tour of all electric lights after 12 o’clock when the public house lights were out. The best lighting was by ‘Brokies lamps’. Lane notes that a policeman told him that London was the only city in the world that could afford electric lighting. Lane is to pay a long visit to the South Metropolitan works which have several new processes under trial, and if he has time to the Siemens works at Woolich. 3pp 89 [28 June 1881] Memorandum from Denny Lane, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Concerns his post. He thinks that letters from Mrs Lane and [Mr G] Lynch must have miscarried. 1p 90 [June 1881] Memorandum from Denny Lane, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Relates to Lane’s visit to Cromptons Electric Works at Chelmsford, England, ‘where they showed me everything in course of construction’. Lane is concerned that a large portion of their work is for arc lighting, with expensive conductors and storage buttresses, but ‘so far as I can see Gas Companies have little to fear from such a system’. Mentions a gas system at the Grosvenor Gallery with an unperfected meter. He cannot possibly get at all the systems in this visit, but ‘got enough to think of for some time’. 3pp 91 22 September 1881

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