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LONDON TRAMWAYS COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/202

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LONDON TRAMWAYS COMPANY

Date(s): 1881

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): London Tramways Ltd | transport operator

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

London Tramways Company Limited of 80 Blackfriars Road opened its first route in 1870 and continued expanding until it reached its full 24 miles by 1892 to become the largest of the southern tramway systems. It laid lines on the major routes from the Thames road bridges to Tooting, Streatham, New Cross and Greenwich, operating 399 horse cars, as well as 40 cable tramcars on the short cable operated section from Kennington Gate to Streatham. Since the whole system was inside the council boundary, it was all acquired by the LCC in 1899 which then made plans for electricification.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of London Tramways Ltd, consisting of printed circulars, 1881.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two items

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in 1962.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Publication note:

Bibliography: "London's tramways: their history and how to model them", by David Voice (Wellingborough, 1985) {LMA Library reference: 27.23 VOI}

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Circulars | Publication formats | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Public transport | Transport
Tramways | Road transport | Transport
Transport companies | Companies | Enterprises
Urban transport | Transport

Personal names

Corporate names
London Tramways Ltd | transport operator

Places