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Enclosure 4
37
The Hongkong Electric Company, Limited.
sir,
Hongkong, 12th. March, 1909.
C.O.
125978
Rece
Red 4 AUG 09
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of
your communication of the 13th. ultimo, enquiring whether the
Hongkong Electric Company is at present working in compliance
with the Board of Trade Regulations, specified under Nos. I to
V in your letter, and in event of such Regulations not being
worked to, whether the Company has any good reasons to adduce
against an Ordinance being brought into force to oblige the
Company to operate under such Regulations.
In reply I beg to submit the following
remarks with reference to the Regulations specified in your
communication.
At the present time the Company's system of
distribution of Electric Energy may be divided under five head-
-ings:-
(1.) Underground High Pressure Feeders (alternating
current, 2,200 volts) with Low Pressure Three-wire Distributors
(200 volts between the outers.)
(2.) Underground High Pressure Feeders (alternating current, 2,200 volta) with Transformers on Consumer's Premises.
(3.) Overhead High Pressure Lines (alternating current, 2,200 volts) with Transformers, either on Consumer's Premises or (mostly) on poles, supplying Consumers through
Overhead Low Pressure Conductors.
(4.) Underground Direct Current Distributors at 220
volts for service of power to Electric Lifts.
(5.) Overhead High Pressure Lines (Direct current, 2,000 volts) for service of Arc Lamps in the Public Streets.
SYSTEM No. 1.
The System of Underground Distribution,
coming