Planning for the future - advert issued by the North-Eastern Electricity Board, 1949
An advert issued by the newly formed nationalised North Eastern Electricity Board in 1949 and featuring a very London Transport style logo! Several of the newly formed Electricity Boards did and, as predecessors to the once London Transport owned North-Metropolitan Electricity, Eastern EB used the existing roundel device. The N-EEB was based at an address that had close links to the earliest days of the UK's electricity industry as Carliol House was built 1924-7 and designed by Burnet, Tait and Lorne with L J Couves & Co to be the new headquarters of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Electric Supply Company, a pioneering concern.
A planner or designer sits 'planning for the future' with high tension pylons marching across the landscape carrying power from new generating stations to your home!
Planning for the future - advert issued by the North-Eastern Electricity Board, 1949
An advert issued by the newly formed nationalised North Eastern Electricity Board in 1949 and featuring a very London Transport style logo! Several of the newly formed Electricity Boards did and, as predecessors to the once London Transport owned North-Metropolitan Electricity, Eastern EB used the existing roundel device. The N-EEB was based at an address that had close links to the earliest days of the UK's electricity industry as Carliol House was built 1924-7 and designed by Burnet, Tait and Lorne with L J Couves & Co to be the new headquarters of the Newcastle Upon Tyne Electric Supply Company, a pioneering concern.
A planner or designer sits 'planning for the future' with high tension pylons marching across the landscape carrying power from new generating stations to your home!