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ARTHUR MOLYNEUX SILLAR, one of the early pioneers of electric lighting, died on March 6 at the age of seventy-two years. He was educated at Shrewsbury, and from 1882 until 1886 he was engaged with the Jablochkoff Electric Light and Power Co. He was chief engineer to the Electrical Engineering Corporation until 1890, and in 1895 he with Mr. E. M. Lacey started practice as consulting engineers. His firm carried out the electrification of the Blackburn tramways in 1897, and in 1902 completed the Bournemouth tramways, this being the first example of a side rail slot system in Great Britain.
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Mr. A. M. Sillar. Nature 139, 661 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139661b0
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