[LB051563], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to De Lancey Horton Louderback, November 6th, 1891
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[LB051563], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to De Lancey Horton Louderback, November 6th, 1891
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1891-11-06
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LB051-F
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142:656
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LB051563
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Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
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November 6th, 1891.
D.H. Louderback Esq.,
519 Dearborn Avenue,
Chicago, Ills.
Dear Sir:-
Mr. Edison has received your letter of the 2nd instant, and asks me to day in reply that it is quite impossible for him, at this time, to make any promises concerning his new system of Electric Railway Propulsion. The apparatus has been tested experimentally at the Laboratory on a track built for the purpose, but before it can be offered generally to the public it must be submitted to a series of practical tests and the point at which these will be made has not yet been selected. It is very probable that requirements will be developed which we are not yet aware, and altogether the matter is in too indefinite a state to permit of any assurance being given you in regard to the time when apparatus could be furnished [illegible overstruck text] for the road in Chicago which you contemplate equipping. The practical tests to which I refer will be made under the immediate supervision of the Edison General Electric Company, through whom the system will eventually be given to the public.
Yours truly,
A.O. Tate
Private Secretary.
No enc.
263
November 6th, 1891.
D.H. Louderback Esq.,
519 Dearborn Avenue,
Chicago, Ills.
Dear Sir:-
Mr. Edison has received your letter of the 2nd instant, and asks me to day in reply that it is quite impossible for him, at this time, to make any promises concerning his new system of Electric Railway Propulsion. The apparatus has been tested experimentally at the Laboratory on a track built for the purpose, but before it can be offered generally to the public it must be submitted to a series of practical tests and the point at which these will be made has not yet been selected. It is very probable that requirements will be developed which we are not yet aware, and altogether the matter is in too indefinite a state to permit of any assurance being given you in regard to the time when apparatus could be furnished [illegible overstruck text] for the road in Chicago which you contemplate equipping. The practical tests to which I refer will be made under the immediate supervision of the Edison General Electric Company, through whom the system will eventually be given to the public.
Yours truly,
A.O. Tate
Private Secretary.
No enc.