UN : ...... 591 (2) little increase in inventiveness and common sense on the part of electrical engineers, this evil may be entirely prevented, surely it is in the interests of all of us that insulated returns should be insisted upon"
I venture to suggest that as the present Applicants for a Concession have stated definitely that the insulated return system is impracticable, that the advice of a recognised authority be taken on this specific point, before the opinion of the present Applicants be accepted as final that such a system could not be established in Hongkong.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) Stuart Harrison.
P.S. I attach overleaf the opinion of another well-known electrical engineer, Mr. James Swinburne, M.I.C.E., M.I.E.E., on the subject of "The Calculation of Distributing Systems of Electric Traction under British Conditions" expressed before a Meeting of the Institution of the Electrical Engineers, in May 1900.
UN
:
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591
(2)
little increase in inventiveness and common sense on the
part of electrical engineers, this evil may be entirely pre-
vented, surely it is in the interests of all of us that in-
sulated returne should be insisted upon"
I venture to suggest that as the present Applicants
for a Concession have stated definitely that the insulated
return system is impracticable, that the advice of a recog-
nised authority be taken on this specific point, before the
opinion of the present Applicants be accepted as final that
such a system could not be established in Hongkong.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) .Stuart Harrison.
P.S.
I attach overleaf the opinion of another well-known
electrical engineer, Mr. James Swinburne, M.I.C.E.,
M.I.E.E., on the subject of "The Calculation of Distri-
buting Systems of Electric Traction under British Con-
ditions" expressed before a Meeting of the Institution
of the Electrical Engineers, in May 1900.
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