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TRAMWAYS M.E.T. OMNIBUS COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

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

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: TRAMWAYS M.E.T. OMNIBUS COMPANY

Date(s): 1911-1934

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.2 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Tramways M.E.T. Omnibus Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Tramways M.E.T. Omnibus Company was founded in 1912 as a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways Company Limited, who were joint stockholders with the British Electric Traction Company. The aim of the company was to provide competition with buses which were taking trade away from trams. The company began operating in partnership with the London General Omnibus Company as early as October 1912, and by 1931 their operations had been almost entirely taken over by that company. In 1933 the remainder of the Tramways M.E.T. Omnibus Company was taken over by the London Passenger Transport Board.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Tramways M.E.T. Omnibus Company, comprising minutes of Board meetings; minutes of the Director's Motor Bus Company; minutes of General meetings and minutes of the Share Allotment Committee.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged in one series: ACC/1297/TMO/001-004: 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:

Robbins, G. J. (George Juxon): Metropolitan : the story of the Tramways (M.E.T.) Omnibus Company Limited (Omnibus Society, 1977), available in the LMA History Library, reference P27.23 ROB.

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
Bus services | Public transport | Transport
Bus travel | Travel
Buses | Transport
Business records | Documents | Information sources
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 General Omnibus Company Ltd | bus service operator
Metropolitan Electric Tramways Co Ltd
Tramways M.E.T. Omnibus Company

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe