BEL Company is the largest local electrical lighting company

[Trade Journal]

Publication: Electrical World

New York, NY, United States
vol. 10, no. 1, p. 11, col. 3

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Boston, Mass. — The Boston Electric Light Company, under he management of Pres. F. A. Gilbert, has become the largest local electric lighting company in the United States. The plant is composed of a consolidation of the Brush Electric Light Company, of Boston, the Merchants' Electric Company of Boston, using the Thomson-Houston system, and the New England Weston, the combinaticn of the three plants making about sixteen hundred arc lights. The company have recently acquired the Citizens Electric Light Company of East Boston, with a capacity of about several hundred lights, the apparatus being built by the American Electric Manufacturing Company of New York. A large increase of apparatus has also just been made, consisting of two hundred and fifty lights, purchased from the American Company.

Keywords:	Boston Electric Light Company : Citizen's Electric Light Company
Researcher notes:	It is possible that insulators embossed BEL CO. could have been made for the Boston Electric Light Co. It is possible that insulators embossed CEL CO. could have been made for the Citizen's Electric Light Co.
Supplemental information:
Researcher:	Bob Stahr
Date completed:	July 15, 2009 by: Bob Stahr;