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Urban Electric Supply Co

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Dartmouth Power Station 1903.

of Broad Sanctuary Chambers, Westminster, S.W.

1898 Company registered for the purpose of obtaining parliamentary powers to work electric light and tramway undertakings in various places in England and Scotland.

1901 Share issue. Directors - Francis Edward Gripper; Edmund Charrington; Herbert Brent Grotrian (Solicitor); William Page; John Cuthbert Wigham. Consulting Electrical Engineer is F. Hastings Medhurst. Parliamentary powers have been obtained for Electric Lighting at Camborne and Redruth; Glossop; Twickenham; Hawick; Grantham; Berwick-on-Tweed; Bishop Auckland; Godalming; Newton Abbot, Stamford; Dartmouth; Weybridge. Electric Tramways at Camborne and Redruth (3.5 miles) and Glossop (4.5 miles).[1]

Installations at Dartmouth, Dorking, Caterham and Hawick

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Truth - Thursday 27 June 1901
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