Catalogue description Volume labelled 'Electric Lighting Contract &c', containing the following:   1) Electric...

Volume labelled 'Electric Lighting Contract &c', containing the following:

1) Electric Lighting Act, 1882, 45 and 46 Victoria c.56.

2) Electric Lighting Act, 1888, 51 and 52 Victoria c.12.

3) Chester Electric Lighting Order, 1890, 53 and 54 Victoria.

4) Chester Electric Lighting, tracing plan of area of supply, 1890.

5) Letter from the Local Government Board to the Town Clerk re the Water Tower Gardens as a site for an electric lighting installation, 26 Oct. 1894.

6) Printed bill re Inquiry by Local Government Board re above, 23 Nov. 1894.

7) Letter from G.E. Bellis & Co. engineers, Ledsham Street Works, Birmingham, to the Town Clerk re supply of electric lighting machinery, 11 Jan. 1895.

8) Letter from the Local Government Board to the Town Clerk re loan sanction for electric lighting scheme, 4 Feb. 1895.

9) Letter from the Local Government Board to the Town Clerk with formal approval of lands in Hamilton Place and Tower Field Garden for electricity scheme, 25 March 1895. 2 Plans.

10) Letter from the Local Government Board to the Town Clerk re loan sanction, 1 July 1895.

11) Letter from the Local Government Board to the Town Clerk re loan sanction, 11 July 1895.

12) Letter from Board of Trade to same provisionally approving Electricity Scheme, 8 Oct. 1895, with printed regulations re the same signed for Chester, 8 Oct. 1895.

13) Letter from the same to the same re the same, 15 Oct. 1895.

14) Letter from the same to the same re the same, 4 March 1896, with printed regulations, signed for Chester 4 March 1896.

15) Letter from the same to the same re the same, 18 July 1901, with printed regulations, signed for Chester, 18 July 1901.

16) Printed conditions and specifications for electric contract to be made by Chester Corporation under Board of Trade regulations, un-dated, c.1896. 46 pp.

17) Bond from Thomas Parker Ltd., of Wolverhampton to Chester Corporation for due performance of contract for electric lighting works, 26 March 1896.

18) City of Chester, Electricity Supply. Information, regulations and rules of wiring issued by the Corporation. Electric Lighting Station: Crane Street. Office: Town Hall, July 1896. Chester, printed by Phillipson and Golder, 1896. 12 pp.

19) Printed general form of agreement for electric energy to be supplied by Chester Corporation, [1896].

20) 'The progress of electricity' from The Electrical Review, 3 and 10 July 1891. 8 pp.

21) John Hopkinson, F.R.S., 'The cost of electric supply' from The Junior Engineering Society Transactions, vol. 3, part 1. 14 pp. Report on the electric lighting of Chester [by W.H. Preece] printed by order of the Council, 19 July 1893, Chester, G.R. Griffith, [1893]. 12 pp.

22) Board of Trade, Statutory rules and orders, 1895, No. 364 Electric Lighting, 1895. 11 pp. 2 copies.

23) Board of Trade, Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, regulations, 1896.

24) Contract between Walter Osmond Rooper of Stafford and 38 Bridge Street Row, Chester, engineer, and Chester Corporation for wiring and fitting Chester Town Hall with electric light, 2 Dec. 1896, with tender and specifications, 26 Nov. 1896.

25) Contract between Walter Osmond Rooper and Chester Corporation for wiring Chester market and approaches with electric light, 28 Dec. 1896, with tender, specifications 1 Dec. 1896. Plan.

26) Contract between Burnance Mervyn Drake and John Marshall Gorham, of Watergate Street Row, electrical engineers, and Chester Corporation for wiring and fitting Chester Free Library for electric light, 1 Feb. 1897. With estimate and specification, 24 Dec. 1896. Plan.

27) Copies of seven letters from the Town Clerk under the Chester Electric Lighting Order 1890 to the owners of various properties in Chester re annual rents payable by the Corporation for permission to lay cables etc., 1898-9.

28) Contract between Thomas Parker Ltd., of Wolverhampton, and Chester Corporation for the supply of machinery and electrical appliances 25 May 1900. Contract between Messrs. Babcock & Wilcox Ltd. of 147 Queen Victoria Street, Lo, and Chester Corporation for the supply and fixing of boilers at the Electric Light Station, Chester, 30 June 1900.

29) Agreement between the Electrical Power Storage Company Ltd. of 4 Great Winchester Street, London, and Chester Corporation for the maintenance of storage battery at Chester Electric Lighting Station, 8 July 1898.

30) Contract between Parker Brothers, of Chester, builders and Chester Corporation for an extension to Chester Electric Lighting Station, 5 May 1900.

31) Act to confirm certain provisional orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Burnley, Bury, Chester, Fleetwood, Lancaster and Salford, 53 and 54 Victoria, c.187, 1890.

32) Local Government Board, City of Chester Provisional Order made in pursuance of Sections 54 and 59 of the Local Government Act 1888, 1898.

33) Agreement between the Electrical Storage Power Company Ltd., of 4 Great Winchester Street, London, and Chester Corporation for the maintenance of storage battery, 1 May 1903.

34) 20 agreements re laying cables etc. in the city, 29 July 1905 - 30 Dec. 1911.