They were enabled to generate and supply, in perpetuity, electricity to authorised undertakings and for industrial and manufacturing purposes over a wide area.
[1] A standard clause safeguarded the privileges of existing company and local authority electricity undertakings.
c. cclxxvi); South Wales Electrical Power Distribution Company Act 1900 (63 & 64 Vict.
The company now supplied electricity to all of Lancashire south of the Ribble, except for the Boroughs of Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Bootle, Southport and central Bolton, an area of about 1,200 square miles.
This had two 1,500 kW turbo-alternator sets manufactured by British Thomson-Houston, generated at 10 kV (the first power station in the UK to transmit by bare electric conductors at 10kV).
[2] Schematic diagrams of the Lancashire electricity system are held by the Science Museum Group and some are available online.
[6] When the national grid was being constructed between 1928 and 1933 an interconnected ‘Lancashire ring’ was formed encompassing Bolton, Padiham, Rawtenstall, and Kearsley.
steel and coal industries, bleachers and dyers, engineering works, railways and electro-chemical processes.
[7] By 1948 the Lancashire Electric Power Company had been divided into eight supply districts: Chorley, Golborne, Mid-Lancs., Ormskirk, Ramsbottom, Westhoughton, Whitefield, and Worsley.
Its power stations at Radcliffe, Padiham and Kearsley and the high voltage transmission lines were vested in the British Electricity Authority.