Engineering works executed by Braithwaite & Co. Ltd, West Bromwich & Newport, c1935 : double circuit high tension transmission tower
A page from a substantial book illustrating the steel work and other engineering contracts carried out by the West Bromwich based Braithwaites. Founded in 1884 as Braithwaite & Kirk the company prospered mainly due to a healthy export business in the 'colonies' as well as in the home market and indeed in 1913 they opened an Indian branch as well as later acquiring additional works in Newport, Monmouthshire.
These two pages show electricity pylons, or transmission towers, that Braithwaites both constructed and erected. The mid-1930s say huge activity in the development of the UK's National Grid (Gridiron) that was instituted by the Government and that formed part of drive to both increase the availability of electricity but also to deliver a more efficient generation and supply industry based on new 'Selected" generating stations and a standardised current to replace the earlier rag-bag of small stations and varying voltages, etc.
Engineering works executed by Braithwaite & Co. Ltd, West Bromwich & Newport, c1935 : double circuit high tension transmission tower
A page from a substantial book illustrating the steel work and other engineering contracts carried out by the West Bromwich based Braithwaites. Founded in 1884 as Braithwaite & Kirk the company prospered mainly due to a healthy export business in the 'colonies' as well as in the home market and indeed in 1913 they opened an Indian branch as well as later acquiring additional works in Newport, Monmouthshire.
These two pages show electricity pylons, or transmission towers, that Braithwaites both constructed and erected. The mid-1930s say huge activity in the development of the UK's National Grid (Gridiron) that was instituted by the Government and that formed part of drive to both increase the availability of electricity but also to deliver a more efficient generation and supply industry based on new 'Selected" generating stations and a standardised current to replace the earlier rag-bag of small stations and varying voltages, etc.