TRAMWAYS M.E.T. OMNIBUS COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/1297/TMO
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full 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 & 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

Related material:

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

Archivist's note:

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