New England agency of C. E. L. Company contracted for new plant

[Trade Journal]

Publication: Electrical Review

New York, NY, United States
vol. 8, no. 12, p. 5, col. 4

BOSTON ELECTRICAL NEWS.

The New England agency of the Consolidated Electric Light Company have contracted for a 150 arc (Thomson-Houston) plant and a large number of incandescents at Turner's Falls, Mass., and for 150 incandesceats at Bar Harbor, Maine, as a beginning of a large incandescent central station. Land has been purchased by the Thomson-Houston Company, of Northampton, Mass., to accommodate their present plant of 93 arc lights, and for an incandescent plant to be added later. The building is to be of brick.

BOSTON, MASS., May 18, 1886.

Keywords:	Consolidated Electric Light Company
Researcher notes:	It is possible that insulators embossed C.E.L. Co. could have been made for the Consolidated Electric Light Company.
Supplemental information:	Photo: 198454357 Photo: 96208312
Researcher:	Bob Stahr
Date completed:	April 29, 2009 by: Bob Stahr;