Metropolitan Electric Lighting Act 1889
WHEREAS in the year 1887 certain persons formed themselves into a company under the name of the South Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Limited with the objects inter alia of producing transmitting storing and using electric magnetic or other force for lighting and other purposes and the said company was duly registered on the 26th day of November 1887 under the Companies Acts 1862 to 1886: And whereas in the month of July 1888 the name of the said company was changed under the provisions ...