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LONDON UNITED TRAMWAYS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1297/LUT

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LONDON UNITED TRAMWAYS

Date(s): 1901-1934

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.25 linear metres

Name of creator(s): London United Tramways Co Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

London United Tramways Company Limited was formed in 1894 in order to buy up the assets of the West Metropolitan Tramways Company, which had gone into receivership. It was part of the Imperial Tramways Company. London United operated in south and west London. It ran London's first electric tram service in 1901, between Hammersmith, Kew Bridge, Shepherd's Bush and Acton. The company was bought by the London and Suburban Traction Company in 1912, which was part of London Electric Railways, known as the London Underground Group. London United passed to the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of London United Tramways, comprising minutes of Board meetings and General meetings.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged in one series: ACC/1297/LUT/01: Minutes.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1975 as part of an accession of records from London Transport.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Publication note:

London United Tramways: A History 1894-1933, by Geoffrey Wilson (Routledge, 2006).

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: November 2009 to February 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Tram services | Public transport | Transport
Trams | Vehicles | Transport
Tramways | Road transport | Transport
Transport companies | Companies | Enterprises
Transport organizations | Organizations
Urban transport | Transport
Urban transport development | Transport planning | Transport
Company archives
Transport infrastructure

Personal names

Corporate names
London United Tramways Co Ltd

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe