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Telephone Buildings.
Birmingham 200.
HK
st January
264
C.0.
902.
168
&
22 JA02
DICKINSON & Mechanical & Electrica Consulting Engineers,
CP Lucas Esq.
Colonial Office.
Si -
London.
Hong Kong Tramways.
Your letter No 42961/1901 pr the 12th ulto.
We should esteem it a great favour if you could now give to us any further information in this matter.
Since Colonel Boyle and our Mr Dickinson last called upon
you, they
have seen two of the principals in the China & Japan Telephone Co with the result that an understanding has been
arrived at with that Company.
An offer has been made,
and
we gather from a letter received from them that the matter is now simply one of formal acceptance by the Board.
Our clients
We hope you will pardon our troubling you. have been to great expense in sending Colonel Boyle and our Mr Dickinson to Hong Kong, and in the preparation of the whole of
and they are now most
the enginee ring details of the scheme, anxious to have the matter settled so that the work of constructing the tramways may be proceeded with forthwith.
Yours faithfully,
Alfrosiesinsound.