COLONEL MELLOR (Lancashire, Radcliffe)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, whether the Board could offer the same facilities for testing and checking electrical standards as is given by the German Government with so much advantage to the German manufacturers of electrical apparatus?
§ MR. RITCHIEThe Board of Trade have caused new denominations of standards for the measurement of electricity to be made and verified, and they now have under consideration the best method of affording facilities to manufacturers and others for comparing their instruments with these standards.