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this telephone co; and I told him it should be sent to the Board of Trade today.
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I also told him that, if he heard nothing further, he could call or write in a fortnight's time
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At the beginning of this year (1901) a Company applied for powers to construct an Electric Tramway in Hongkong. As far as the local authorities are concerned, the necessary permission appears to all intents and purposes to have been granted, and the Directors are advised that the Hongkong Electric Tramway Bill is only awaiting the third reading and afterwards the approval of the Colonial Office in London before becoming law.
The Hongkong Telephone Exchange is worked on the single wire system, using the earth as a return, and it is inevitable that the telephones should be seriously affected by the operation of this tramway.
Mr Lucas
Extension Telegraph bo
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Frotter, though I above you refers to Adonisers in the plural. inform Board of Trade of receipt of Hongkong Telephone Company's letter and ask whether, if Her Majesty's Government is considering these papers, the Board can see any objection to making an appointment on behalf of this Company.
see that in your minute
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Stick to the Rutherford delapham Very well, but the others will
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all want the same
The difficulty can be overcome in two ways.
1. By the Tramway Co. adopting the double trolley system, and using an insulated return wire for their trams instead of using their rails and the earth as a return, as they propose to do.
2. By metallic circuiting the Telephone System.
The first method would entail extra expense both in the installation & working of the Tramway, as well as complications in their lines and plant. The double trolley system is but little used; the universal method being the single trolley.
There are also reasons to believe that there is no probability of the double trolley system being adopted to overcome the disturbances.
The second method would be more satisfactory for all concerned, but as the present single telephone lines give satisfaction, it is