Glasgow Corporation Electricity Department

of 251 Sauchiehall St., Glasgow

Part of Glasgow Corporation

1892 On 1st March, the Corporation took possession of Messrs. Muir, Mavor and Coulson’s John Street Power Station. The supply (on the high-tension overhead system) having only been sanctioned by the Board of Trade to continue until August, 1893, the Corporation proceeded forthwith to lay down a central generating station for the low-tension supply. The Corporation, acting under the Gas Acts, having been constituted the undertakers of the new department, the Gas Committee were entrusted with carrying out the scheme, and in 1891 active steps were taken for putting the powers obtained by the Corporation into execution.

1892 The Corporation purchased ground in Waterloo Street for £8,000, and started to erect a generating station there in the Spring of 1892. On the advice of Lord Kelvin, they adopted the low-tension dc three-wire system at 200 volts, to save the cost of altering existing consumers’ installations, which could be connected to the new system without exchanging the lamps.

1897 Two sites for new power stations, one for the north and another for the south side of the river, were purchased in Glasgow - about four and a half acres of ground at Port Dundas, adjoining the Forth and Clyde Canal at Speirs’ Wharf, and about two acres of ground close to Eglinton Toll in Pollokshaws Road.

1899 The works and whole undertaking of the Kelvinside Electricity Co were purchased and taken over by the Corporation in August 1899.

c.1900 The new works were completed

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