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 They were, he said, selling electrical power for similar 

 purposes in Lancashire at id per B.T.U., while in some 

 places water generated electricity could be obtained at the 

 rate of £2 15s per HP. per year, which was much cheaper 

 than steam generated power. Even where the electrical 

 power was obtained entirely by steam it was far under |d. 

 per B.T.U. in some places. (Mr. Smail here stated that 

 the Board had to pay the City Council Id. per unit for 

 electricity supplied to Crown Street for pumping purposes.) 

 Mr. Kilburn Scott considered this price as excessive, and 

 said that if the Board could give the City Council a day 

 load of half year, say 1,000 hours a year, they ought to be 

 able to supply the necessary power at a much lower rate 

 and get profit out of it. In Switzerland, be said, water 

 generated electrical power was obtainable at the rate of 

 £1 2s. 6d. per HP. per year. Power from Niagara was 

 obtainable in Baltimore at about £4 per HP. per year, and 

 the price of electricity in some places was as low as id. per 

 unit. (Mr. Selfe, "If they have got such wonderful engines 

 to generate electrical power, at such cheap rates, what is 

 the necessity for converting the power in those engines 

 into a current, running it perhaps for scores of miles and 

 then re-converting it again into motor power, when the 

 engine itself could be bodily shifted into the pumping 

 station?") Mr. Kilburn Scott, "The units used in individual 

 pumping stations are in the nature of about 7,000 or 8,000 

 HP. per year, which would not profitably employ these 

 large engines. It is a question of the big man being able' 

 to outsell the little man." 



Mr. Price said that he had not the privilege of hearing 

 the paper read, but he could see by the abstract printed 

 that it had been a very valuable paper indeed as regarded 



