Overview of the Collection |
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Repository: |
Dallas Municipal Archives |
Creator: | Dallas Power and Light Company and City of Dallas |
Title: | Dallas Power and Light Company |
Dates: | 1888, 1912 -1923, 1943 |
Quantity: | 10 linear inches |
Abstract: | Rate and regulation history of the Dallas Power & Light Company |
Identification: | 91 - 043 |
Language: | Records are in English |
Collection
documents the early history of Dallas Power and Light Company and its interaction with the City of Dallas. Materials include Dallas Power & Light rate schedules, City ordinances granting a franchise to the company, records of actions taken by the Dallas Board of Commissioners and correspondence regarding rate changes and regulation.
The Texas Power & Light Company (TP&L) consolidated 13 electric companies under one company in 1912, and in 1917 formed Texas Power & Light to power the Dallas area. In 1984 Dallas Power and Light merged with two companies, TESCO and Texas Power & Light, to form Texas Utilities Electric Company, later known as TXU.
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Dallas -- Texas -- History | ||
Electric utilities -- Texas -- Dallas - History | ||
Dallas Power and Light Company - History |
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Title, Date | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | Letter of acceptance of an ordinance pertaining to telephone, telegraph and electric light companies by the Electric Light Power and Manufacturing Company, 1888 | ||||||||||
2 | Memorandum of an Agreement between the City of Dallas and the Dallas Electric Light and Power Company for public lighting, 1912-1914 | |||||||||||
3 | Ordinance granting a franchise from the City of Dallas to Dallas Power & Light Company, unsigned draft | |||||||||||
4 | Dallas Power & Light, Schedule of Rates No. 2 - Rules and Regulations - Standard Form of Agreements for Electric Service, 1919 | |||||||||||
5 | Dallas Power & Light, requisitions for improvement, 1913-1919 | |||||||||||
6 | Revised contracts and rate information, 1918 | |||||||||||
7 | Dallas Power & Light, requisitions for improvement, 1919 | |||||||||||
8 | Purchase of property by Dallas Power & Light from Dallas Ice Factory, Rate Schedule No. 2 and other action by the Board of Commissioners concerning Dallas Power & Light, 1918-1919 | |||||||||||
9 | Dallas Board of Commissioners hearing on charges of rate discrimination against the Dallas Ice Factory & Dallas Electric Light and Power Company, 1916 | |||||||||||
10 | Proposed Schedule of Rates - Rules and Regulations - Standard Form of Agreements for Electric Services, c. 1921 | |||||||||||
11 | Action taken by the Board of Commissioners concerning the governing of Dallas Power & Light Company, 1921 | |||||||||||
12 | Rate change with draft resolution, 1920 | |||||||||||
13 | Rates resolution, 1921 | |||||||||||
14 | Correspondence concerning rates, 1920 | |||||||||||
15 | Resolution on rate schedules, 1921 | |||||||||||
16 | Application for rate increase, 1920 | |||||||||||
17 | Rate changes, 1921 | |||||||||||
2 | 1 | Letter and estimate of earnings concerning rates, 1920 | ||||||||||
2 | Schedule of Rates No. 5 - Rules and Regulations for Electric Service, 1922 | |||||||||||
3 | Comparative rate curves for Proposed Schedule of Rates No. 3, 1920 | |||||||||||
4 | Motion for rehearing by Dallas Power & Light Company upon Rates Schedule No. 3 and charges to the Dallas Railway Company, 1921 | |||||||||||
5 | Rate regulation, 1922 | |||||||||||
6 | Schedule of rates, 1922 | |||||||||||
7 | Increase capacity comparison, 1921- 1923 | |||||||||||
8 | Resolution adopting Rate Schedule No. 4 with additional documentation, 1921 | |||||||||||
9 | Revised and corrected Proposed Schedule of Rates No. 3, 1920 | |||||||||||
10 | Schedule of Rates No. 2 - Rules and Regulations - Standard Form of Agreements for Electric Service, 1919 | |||||||||||
11 | Letter signed by Charles Davis, President Dallas Power & Light Company to the Mayor and Board of Commissioners concerning Franchise Section 23, 1920 | |||||||||||
12 | Letter signed by Charles Davis, President Dallas Power & Light Company to the Mayor and Board of Commissioners concerning rate changes, includes Proposed Schedule Rate No. 3, 1920 | |||||||||||
13 | Schedule of Rates, 1920 | |||||||||||
14 | Franchise ordinance, draft, 1943 | |||||||||||
15 | Franchise from the City of Dallas to Dallas Power and Light, 1943 (hard bound) | |||||||||||
16 | Franchise from the City of Dallas to Dallas Power and Light, 1943 (soft bound) |