1. To carry on business as manufacturers, producers, processors, makers, inventors, converters, importers, exporters, traders, buyers, sellers, retailers, wholesalers, suppliers, indenters, packers, movers, preservers, stockists, agents, sub-agents, merchants, distributors, consignors, jobbers, brokers, concessionaires or otherwise deal in gas, coke, tar and all other residual products resulting from the manufacture of gas or the extraction of natural gas, and to carry on all the business which may conveniently by carried on in conjunction with any such activity.

2. To supply gas for lighting, heating, motive power or any other purpose.

3. To acquire, construct, erect, lay, maintain, enlarge, and use all such lands, buildings, easements, gas and other works, machinery, plants, pipes, motors, meters, apparatus, materials and things, and to supply all such materials, products and things as may be convenient in conjunction with the production, use, storage, measurement, supply and distribution of any of the products of the company.

4. To carry on business as manufacturers, producers, processors, makers, inventors, converters, importers, exporters, traders, buyers, sellers, retailers, wholesalers, suppliers, stockists, agents, sub-agents, merchants, distributors, consignors, jobbers, brokers, concessionaires or otherwise deal in oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbonic acid, acetylene and any other gases or kindred substances, or any compounds thereof by any process, engines, electrodes, transformers, gas cylinders, compressors, welding machines and other apparatus and conveniences which may seem calculated to promote (directly or indirectly) the consumption of gases.

5. To carry on business as manufacturers, producers, processors, makers, inventors, converters, importers, exporters, traders, buyers, sellers, retailers, wholesalers, suppliers, indenters, packers, movers, preservers, stockists, agents, sub-agents, merchants, distributors, consignors, jobbers, brokers, concessionaires or otherwise deal in metals, substances and materials, of all kinds (including glass) which may be usefully or conveniently employed in the manufacture of receivers for compressed or liquefied or other gases, and all machinery, appliances, tools, articles and things used or capable of being used for closing or in the manufacture of appliances for closing such receivers or for closing or stopping bottles or for liberating the gases or other contents of any such receivers or the tools required for or used in the manufacture of any such article or things or for any of the purposes aforesaid.

6. To carry on business as manufacturers, producers, processors, makers, inventors, converters, importers, exporters, traders, buyers, sellers, retailers, wholesalers, suppliers, indenters, packers, movers, preservers, stockists, agents, sub-agents, merchants, distributors, consignors, jobbers, brokers, concessionaires or otherwise deal in dissolved acetylene, acetylene lamps, generators and plants, acetylene apparatus and accessories and other apparatus, appliances, articles and things which may seem calculated to promote or to be capable of being used in connection with the consumption of dissolved acetylene.