[LB051594], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to James B Skehan, November 11th, 1891
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Title
[LB051594], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to James B Skehan, November 11th, 1891
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Date
1891-11-11
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Folder/Volume ID
LB051-F
Microfilm ID
142:658
Document ID
LB051594
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
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H. F.
November 11th, 1891.
J.P. Skehan, Esq.,
Care of Spencer, Trask & Company,
16 & 18 Broad Street,
City.
My Dear Mr. Skehan:-
In reply to your letter of the 7th instant, I am sorry that I cannot give you any information in regard to Mr. Edison’s new system of Electric Railway propulsion except in a very general way. An experimental track has been built at the Laboratory and the system has been working there. The intention is, I believe, to select some road on which to make a practical test and to develop the system in a commercial way; the point where this test will be constructed has not yet been decided upon; it will be determined by the Edison General Electric Company in consultation with Mr. Edison. The system will be given to the public through the Edison General Company: it is expensive and was designed for use only in large cities. I understand that Mr. Edison has stated that it will take probably a year to collect all the data necessary before any general application can be made of the system.
Yours very truly,
A.O. Tate
Private Secretary.
No enc.
H. F.
November 11th, 1891.
J.P. Skehan, Esq.,
Care of Spencer, Trask & Company,
16 & 18 Broad Street,
City.
My Dear Mr. Skehan:-
In reply to your letter of the 7th instant, I am sorry that I cannot give you any information in regard to Mr. Edison’s new system of Electric Railway propulsion except in a very general way. An experimental track has been built at the Laboratory and the system has been working there. The intention is, I believe, to select some road on which to make a practical test and to develop the system in a commercial way; the point where this test will be constructed has not yet been decided upon; it will be determined by the Edison General Electric Company in consultation with Mr. Edison. The system will be given to the public through the Edison General Company: it is expensive and was designed for use only in large cities. I understand that Mr. Edison has stated that it will take probably a year to collect all the data necessary before any general application can be made of the system.
Yours very truly,
A.O. Tate
Private Secretary.
No enc.