Steam Stoker Co

of London

1872 Share issue. 'The strike of the London gas stokers clearly shows the necessity of substituting machinery for hand labour, in this which is the only branch of gas manufacture wherein the Companies are solely dependent upon their labourers.' Directors - Samuel Andrews, Esq, Director of the "Malta and Mediterranean Gas Co," and Secretary of the late "Equitable Gas Co now amalgamated with the "Chartered Gas Co"; J. Milo Burke, Esq., J.P., Director of the "Alliance and Dublin Consumers' Gas Co"; Jabez Church, Esq,, M.Inst.C.E., "President of the Society of Engineers," and Ex-President of the "British Association of Gas Managers."; James Glaisher, Esq., Chairman of the "Harrow Gas Co." Deputy Chairman of the "Barnet District Gas and Coke Co" and Auditor of the "Crystal Palace District Gas Co"; William Innes, Esq., C.E., late Engineer-in-Chief of the "Phoenix Gas Light and Coke Co"; James Pim, Esq., Director of the "Alliance and Dublin Consumers' Gas Co."; Major W. Swainson Suart, R.E., A.I.C.E., Director of the "Bombay Gas Co," and of the "Bournemouth Gas Co." Philip Witham, Esq. of Messrs. Ward, Mills and Witham., Grays-Inn-Square.

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