ACTUAL COSTS AND CAPACITY OF RECENTLY 

 ERECTED GASWORKS. 



BY J. H. BREARLEY. 



IN introducing these notes on the actual costs of gasworks, 

 the writer would pay a tribute to the excellent articles 

 contributed to THE GAS WORLD by Mr. Norton H. 

 Humphrys, and now reproduced, together with much 

 additional matter, for which Mr. Humphrys is responsible. 

 Only close observation and practice extending over a 

 large number of years could have resulted in bringing 

 together so much extremely useful advice. The figures 

 and other particulars which the writer gives in the sub- 

 sequent pages relate to small works which were erected 

 between 1907 and 1910. They may form an acceptable 

 supplement to what Mr. Humphrys has written upon the 

 construction and management of small works, though the 

 notes refer to works larger than those which he had chiefly 

 in mind, and were designed and erected to supply rapidly 

 growing communities in the neighbourhood of new colliery 

 shafts. 



The problem of what the capacity of the works should 

 be was difficult of solution, especially as dame rumour 

 was busy asserting that other pit shafts within the contem- 

 plated area of supply were about to be sunk. It was 

 deemed prudent to look at least ten years ahead, but the 

 data to work upon was only such as to lead, at best, to 

 conclusions that did not carry a strong sense of conviction 

 that the forecasting would be quite correct. 



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