COPI
The China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company, Ld.
The Honourable
J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, C.M.G.,
Colonial Secretary,
Sir,
Hongkong, 19th August, 1901.
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I have the honour to thank you for your letter No. 1854 of the 30th ultimo, enquiring whether this Company has any objections to make to the Tramways Bill in its present form, and if so, requesting us to submit a statement of our objections and of the reasons for such objections.
In case you have not my letter of the 4th of June, addressed to the Acting Colonial Secretary before you, I beg to be permitted to make the following extract from it:-
"The Exchange controlled by this Company is worked on what is known as the Single Line System, using earth connections, and this system has been found to be perfectly successful and to meet the requirements of Hongkong, the lines being too short for any appreciable induction to take place, and they are readily restored after typhoons.
"I gather from the copy of the Ordinance that it is proposed to use the Single Trolley System, if so, we can only continue our business by doubling the number of wires in the streets and roads of the Colony, at great expense, to provide each subscriber with two wires, instead of one as at present. This multiplication of wires will give rise to much more serious stoppage by typhoons than hitherto; there will also be a heavy expenditure in providing entirely new switch-boards, fuse-boards and other apparatus incidental to metallic circuit working; and the cost of maintaining the new system will, roughly speaking, be twice as great as at present.
"I venture to suggest that at a comparatively small additional cost the Double Trolley System could be installed, this system is in every way suited to the requirements of the Colony, and has been for many years, and is still successfully in use in Cincinnati and other American Cities, and would not interfere in the least with telephone, or telegraph wires, or with gas or water pipes; or that we be compensated for the expenditure forced upon us
COPI
The China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company,
- Linitad.
The Honourable
J. H. Stewart-bookbart, 6.1.3.,
Colonial Secretary,
sir,
Hongkong.
Hongkong, 19th. August, 1901.
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588
I have the honour to thank you for your
letter No. 1854 of the 30th. altimo, enquiring whether this Company has any objections to make to the Tramways Bill in its present form, and if so, requesting us to submit a statement of our objections and of the reasons for such.objections.
In case you have not my letter of the 4th. of June, `addressed. to the Acting Colonial Secretary before you, I beg to be permitted to make the following extract from it:-
"The Exchange controlled by this "Company is worked on what is known as the Single Line Systen, using "earth connections, and this system has been found to be perfectly "successful and to meet the requirements.of Hongkong, the lines being "too short for any appreciable Induction to take place, and they are "readily restored after typhoons.
"I gather from the copy of the Ordinance "that it is proposed to use the Single Trolley System, if so, we can "only continue our business by doubling the number of wires in the "streets and roads of the Colony, at great expense, to provide each "subscriber with two wires, instead of one as at present. This multipli- "oation of wires will give rise to much more serious stoppage by "typhoons than hitherto, there will also be a heavy expenditure in #providing entirely new Switob-boards, Puse-boards and other apparatus "incidental to metallic circuit working; and the cast of maintaining "the new system will, roughly speaking, be twice as great as at *present.
"I venture to suggest that at a compara- *tively small additional cost the Bouble Trolley System could be *installed, this system is in every way suited to the requirements of "the Colony, and has been for many years, and is still successfully in "ase in Cincinnati and other American Cities, and would not interfere "is the least with telephone, or telegraph wires, or with gass or water "pipes; or that we be dampensated for the expenditure forced upon as
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