In the first of a two-part 'Light on the past' series, Simon Cornwell delves into the archives to show how the disruption of the Second World War left Glasgow's EJ Stewart at the helm of the Association of Public Lighting Engineers for an unprecedented six years. Yet it took three attempts before he could give a full conference address. The Association of Public Lighting Engineers (APLE) went into suspended animation during the war. Many of its activities were extremely curtailed with administration kept to a minimum. So, annual general meetings, conferences and meetings were either postponed or cancelled.
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