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Show AMERICAN TO CONSTRUCT TROLLEY LINE IN ENGLAND. New York, July 2. Thoma3 Nevins of East Orange will sail on Saturday to take up the work of constructing 147 miles of trolley between Liverpool and Manchester, and embracing side lines touching, many populous towns. The work will entail an expenditure of $20,-000,000, $20,-000,000, all of which will be furnished by American financiers. Mr. Nevins, who. with his father, is prominent among the pioneer traction contractors of the east, said: "The English do not seem to have awakened to the possibilities in electric roads. We look upon England as containing con-taining our principal interests nowadays, nowa-days, because the field there is so largely large-ly undeveloped. We have done a great deal of work in this country, but it is pretty well supplied now and the field operations are correspon Singly restricted. restrict-ed. In England it is practically unlimited." |