The electrification of England ig making slow but steady progress It is now announced that pla nearly complete for the transmis sion of power from the Bedford Corporation electricity works to 52 surrounding villages and outlying farms, The scheme is an expone ment and the Government guaranteeing the Corporation against lose in the first 10 years, It is said that, if the plan is ssu cessful, it will' be extended and in time, if enough current is used, may be as cheap as a penny a unit. Appliances and internal wire ing will be ayailnble on easy terms and it is hoped to give cure rent to every farm in the area served. The current will be cays ried from place to place by overs head cables, but through the vile ages underground wiring will employed, One hundred and thit five miles of overhead enables have to be put up.
Many people ave beginning to wonder what will be the effect on the countryside when England has become a network of overbend wires. Serious protests have ale randy been made against their being set up in the 'Lake District.' It seems, however, that, in view of the formidable extra cost of putting such wires underground, they will have to come and, like telephone wires end petrol' stations, we shall have to get used to them,
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