The electrical equipment market of the Netherland East Indies

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Identifikator:: 1833098390

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221838

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The electrical equipment market of the Netherland East Indies

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: II, 46 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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2Q LJ J tT NY AS oo ch > Cn NN Sy ach “ oul ny -~ T oH oN rl wrabaya the Surabaya Electric Tram Co. maintains a highly t tram service to all parts of the town. One branch of the 1y’s track connects the harbor with the town, a distance of 6 miles. The equipment and rolling stock of the Surabaya ay is of European manufacture and is thoroughly up-to-date sicient. i: LIGHTING HOME LIGHTING | a few years ago, homes in the Netherland East Indies were vorly illuminated because of the high rates charged for current 1 ips of high wattage. During the last few years, however, there ten a tendency on the part of the power companies to make rates lower. An increase in the demand for lighting facilities * homes has been the result. Cheap German fixtures are used ing the native homes, while the wealthier class is furnished with 5 of conventional Dutch design. ndas of all European and some of the better-class native homes ated by large standing lamps, which are used more commonly verhead lights because insects are attracted to the lights. The a lamps are usually covered with elaborate silk lamp shades, are made and sold very cheaply in Java. The lamps also are locally, of reed or teak or some other tropical wood. The we often beautifully carved by Chinese woodworkers. } homes mtended for Europeans are now being equipped with 1 Interior lighting fixtures, but in the past the fixtures that were >d were of cheap and antiquated design. In the homes of the ¥, however, elaborate glass chandeliers are found. This type ire 1s also popular with the better-class natives. oo types of fixtures found in living and dining rooms are varied. lamps, as well as highly decorated chandeliers of metal, sus- from the ceiling either by rods or chains, are used. ~~ rican manufacturers of home lighting fixtures will find it ex- y difficult to persuade electrical firms in Java to handle their ince the European goods are so firmly intrenched on the local t and so far below the American products in price that few ers would even try to introduce a new line. > Te. STREET LIGHTING < ay C= No asl progress in street lighting has not kept pace with other devel- ts in the use of electric power. The streets of the most im- t cities in the territory are poorly illuminated, and in many owns and villages there are no street lights of any description. lerican company, which has been endeavoring to introduce its lighting reflectors into Java for the last five years, has finally ded in interesting one of the large municipalities. This was however, only after tests over a period of several vears were with the reflectors. ranch office of a German manufacturer secures most of the ss in steel poles which support the electric wires used in convey- » current used in street lighting. American poles were used by vernment several years ago, but the climate had a deleterious on them; they soon corroded and had to be replaced. In the owns street lights are suspended from wires strung between oq that line the roadsides.

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