Middleton ElectricTractionCompany Ltd. operated an electric tramway service in Middleton, England between 1902 and 1925. It was a subsidiary company of the...
British ElectricTractionCompany Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE...
subsidiary of FirstGroup. The company began life as Potteries Motor Traction. As part of the privatisation of the National Bus Company, PMT Limited was created...
Bushmills–Giant's Causeway opened 1 July 1887. World's first use of electrictraction with hydroelectric generation. Track built in street in Portrush....
The PotteriesElectricTractionCompany was formed by British ElectricTraction to take over the assets of the North Staffordshire Tramways Company. The...
Peterborough's electric tram system was superseded by a motorbus system which was an original component of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company. Turner, Keith...
District ElectricTractionCompany operated a tramway service in North Shields, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay between 1901 and 1931. The company was formed...
Wakefield's Motors Limited City of Oxford Motor Services Potteries Motor Traction Rhondda Transport Company Ribble Motor Services and its subsidiaries: Standerwick...
Electrical Engineering Company 1925 20-21 Brush Electrical Engineering Company 1928 (second hand from the PotteriesElectricTractionCompany) 22-29 ex Kirkcaldy...
extension from Groudle to Laxey), the company was known as the Douglas and Laxey Coast Electric Tramway Company. Construction of this next stage started...
District Electric Light and TractionCompany operated a passenger tramway service in Musselburgh between 1904 and 1928. The National Electric Construction...
was a subsidiary of the British ElectricTraction and services begun on 31 October 1902. In early 1898, three companies had applied for local tramway systems...
Location System Traction type Date opened Notes Blackpool Blackpool Tramway Electric 29 September 1885 Edinburgh Edinburgh Trams Electric 31 May 2014 Extension...
Electric Tramways operated a tramway service in Merthyr Tydfil between 1901 and 1939. The company was owned by the Merthyr Tydfil ElectricTraction and...
acquired authority to construct an electric tramway in 1896) bought the Drypool and Marfleet Steam Tramways Company for £15,500. The system was operated...
moved from horse power to steam locomotion, and was finally converted to electric power, using the largest tram cars ever built for service in Britain, before...
electrical controller or the brakes). Several different companies and municipalities operated London's electric tramways. The largest was the LCC, with lines equipped...
the first practical electric tramways in the world, just six years after Werner von Siemens first demonstrated electrictraction. The inauguration was...
Coventry Electric Tramways Company Ltd, which started operations in 1895. This company was a subsidiary of the New General TractionCompany. The contractors...
Lane was the owner of the Lancaster Electrical Company of Barnet, a manufacturer of battery electric vehicles. His hobby was trams, and in 1949 he constructed...
operated by electric cars using overhead current supply. Other routes were soon electrified and the company became a British ElectricTraction subsidiary...
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