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Welland Actylene Gas Machine Co.

[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears &Sawle, Publishers]

The Welland Acetylene Gas Machine Co., manufacturers of the “King” carbide feed acetylene gas machines, is somewhat of a new innovation to Welland’s industrial enterprises, having been installed but a few months, its plant being located in a two story building on East Main Street, between the Grand Trunk depot and the canal. Mr P. McMurray is the general manager of the company. He is a practical mechanic of long standing, and for years successfully conducted a stove and tinware business, which he relinquished in furtherance of his present interests.Every detail incident to the manufacture of these machines from the raw material to the finished product is given careful attention, and accomplished upon the premises which are equipped with all the necessary paraphernalia for that purpose, and are produced in any size, and with a generating capacity of from fifteen lights to the installation of an entire town lighting plant. The salient features of these machines are their simplicity, economy and reliability, furnishing a bright, steady light of as great and even more intensity than electricity, and this, combined with its purity and freedom from odiferous smells, both in generating and the cleansing, renders the Welland machine of infinitely more value than any other extant, not only for the lighting of public or private buildings, but from hygenic principles. The Welland machines are not only adaptable to the lighting of apartments  or buildings, but with the improvement introduced are more available and superior to the Pintsch, or any other method of lighting railway coaches or locomotives, affording better service and a brighter, steadier light.

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