It is inexplicable that between 1907 and 1909 the concessionaire company, having obtained a new works and a complete modification of the existing lines, should have committed the technical and financial error of producing a continuous current of 2 by 240 volts, a system which did not lend itself to subsequent extensions. The Company was forced to acknowledge this error, for in 1911 it had to replace the continuous current by a three-phase current and, to do this, had not only to modify its works, but also its system of mains, meters, and all the private instellations of the subscribers, ie, fans, lamps, ete.
This error cost them dear, for the important transformation—_ thas necessary lasted from 1912
1915.
As in the case of the International Settlement, the intensive devel-lopment and modernization of the French Concession brought to the company an increase in customers according to the following table Maxi
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