Tenders for this section have not yet been received. They are due on February 2.
MAIN SWITCHGEAR—No. 4 Section.
The following tenders have been received The Union Electric Ca. 41s 00 Cowans Ld. 1,428 00 General Electric Ca.
(England) 11445 0 0 British Westinghouse Ca. 1,512 5 0 Cox-Walkers Ld. 1g15 00 Spagnoletti Ld. 4571 00 Allgemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft 1,592 0 0 Siemens Bros. & Ca. Ld. 1,613 0 0 Johnson & Phill Bertram Thomas Electric Construction Ca. 100 Ferranti Ld. 56 Reyrolle Ld. oe Brown Hoven Ld. 00 British Thomson Houston Ca. 2,744 100 Crompton & Ca. Ld. 3,138 0 0
The designs of boards and types of switches vary very much in character. We have carefully considered the different offers, and have concluded that the tender of the British Westinghouse Company Ld. is the most satisfactory in design at the price offered, and we propose to provisionally accept their tender.
'TRANSFORMERS—No. 5 Section.
The following tenders have been received for the transformers required for the generating station, and for one of the first substations Allgemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft 20
The Brush Electrical Eng. Ca. Ld. 626 666
British Electric Transformer Ca. 674 British Westinghouse Ca, 680 erlikon Company 680 Allgemeine Ca. (alternative) 700 Siemens Bros. & Ca, Ld. 804 The lowest tender, namely, that of the Allgemeine Elektricitates Gesellshaft, is satisfactory, and we have provisionally accepted their tender at caBius—No. 9 Section.
The following tenders have been received R. R. Todd (The Lahmeyer Ca.) 12,078 15 Messrs. Siemens Bros, London 12,079 5
The Allgemeine Elektncitats Gesellschaft 12,222 0 0 The Western Electtic Ca.
La. 12,226 12 6 The British Insulated Helsby Cables Ld. 12,338 1 0 W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works 12,380 13 0 CallendersCableCo.Ld. 13,182 3 0 W. T, Glover & Ca. Ld. 13,325 1 0 The Union Company 14,030 13 0 The General ElectricCo.
La. 14,046 27
We carefully considered the above tenders, and in view of the fact that Messrs. Siemens' cable will be made at Woolwich, while Mr. Todd's are made at Cologne, the extra cost of 10s, was fully justified, owing to the reduced expenses of inspection and testing in England as compared with Germany.
We decided to provisionally accept Messrs. Siemens' tender.
Preece, Carpew & SNELL, ce \ondon, February 4, 1911.
Sixy—Referring to the instructions contained in your letter of December 10 last I have to report that have ce-operated with the Electrical Engineer and Messrs. Cardew Snell, the Council's Consulting Electrical Engineers in the selection of the tenders referred to in the Consulting Engineer's report to the Council dated the 31st ultimo and which is now being forwarded.
Thave had a considerable number of interviews with Messrs. Preece, Cardew & Snell who have afforded me the fullest possible information in regard to the various points at issue and I am now able to approve the recommendations in reference to the various tenders contained in the report.
The questions involved in regard to the settlement of the tender forthe turbogenerators are somewhat technical, The Consulting Engineers have stated their views on the matter very lucidly to me and there is not any doubt in my mind as to the desirability of adopting their special recommendation, Clauses have been inserted in all the specifications as to tenders holding good until after the Ratepayers' Meeting and provision has also been made in to fluctuations that may occur in the price of copper.
Lam, Sir, Your obedient servant, W. E. Levrson, Esq., Secretary, Municipal Council, Original fr
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