West Ham Corporation Tramways
West Ham Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in the County Borough of West Ham between 1901 and 1933.[1]
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![]() West Ham Corporation Tramways tramcar 102 in the London Transport Museum | |||||||||||||||||
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Locale | West Ham, Essex | ||||||||||||||||
Close | June 1937 | ||||||||||||||||
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History
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West Ham Corporation took over the North Metropolitan Tramways horse drawn services in stages starting on 1 July 1903. A programme of modernisation and electrification was undertaken, and the first electric services ran on 27 February 1904.
The company built up a fleet of 134 tramcars in a chocolate and cream livery.
The company experimented with trolley buses as early as 1912. At the annual conference of the Municipal Tramways Association from 25–27 September 1912, an Austrian Cédès-Stoll was the first trolleybus to carry passengers in London, along Greengate Street.
Closure
The services were taken over by London Passenger Transport Board on 1 July 1933.
References
- Klapper, Charles Frederick (1961). The Golden Age of Tramways. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. OCLC 752791132.