Exeter Gas Co

1852 'Increased Consumption or Gas. We are glad to find that the late reduction in the price of gas has been duly appreciated by the public, and the impetus given to this great necessary of life, by the lowness of price, has increased the demand so extensively to cause an outlay by the Gas Company of above £3,000, to make their present apparatus and machinery adequate to a largely increasing demand. The Company has accepted plans and estimates of Mr. John Vickary, gas apparatus manufacturer, Fore-street, for the erection of an immensely large gasometer and tank which will be capable of containing 600,000 gallons, and will take 170 tons of iron to complete it Messrs. Martin and Parkin, of the Bonhay Foundry, have contracted for the supply of castings thus the whole of the work will be performed at home.'

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