South-Eastern (Brush) Electric Light and Power Co
c.1883 The company began supplying electricity to tradesmen in Colchester
1884 The South-Eastern (Brush) Electric Light and Power Co Ltd gained a licence to supply electricity in the central streets of Colchester; they planned to use House-to-House Lighting based on the B T K system of distribution (named after the electrical engineers of the company, Messrs Beaman, Taylor and King), which was a decentralised system with secondary batteries or accumulators placed in positions so as to reduce the length and size of distribution cables; this was seen as making the supply to the customer independent of moving machinery. The dynamos were driven by engines supplied by Davey, Paxman and Co and were excited by small Anglo-American Brush Corporation Victoria dynamo [1]
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- ↑ The Essex Standard, West Suffolk Gazette, and Eastern Counties' Advertiser, June 14, 1884