SOUTH METROPOLITAN ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/1297/SMET
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SOUTH METROPOLITAN ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS
Date(s)	: 1899-1934
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.3 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: South Metropolitan Electric Tramways and Lighting Co Ltd

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The South Metropolitan Electric Tramways and Lighting Company Limited operated 52 tramcars and 13.08 miles of tramways in south London, Surrey and Kent. In 1912, along with London United Tramways and Metropolitan Electric Tramways, it was purchased by the London and Suburban Traction Company, a company owned jointly by British Electric Traction and the London Electric Railway Company (the London Underground Group). This Company became part of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of South Metropolitan Electric Tramways, comprising minutes of Board meetings and minutes of General meetings.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged in one series: ACC/1297/SMET/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

Related material:

Publication note:

London's Trams and Trolleybuses, John R. Day, published by London Transport, 1979.

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