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East Ham Corporation Tramways
East Ham Corporation Tramways operated a passenger tramway service in East Ham between 1901 and 1933.The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis. History East Ham started services on 22 June 1901. The depot and power station were located off Nelson Street, opposite the junction with Poulett Road, at . Fleet *1–20 Dick, Kerr & Co. 1901 *21–35 Dick, Kerr & Co. 1902 *36–40 Dick, Kerr & Co. 1905 *41–45 Dick, Kerr & Co. 1910 *46 second hand car No 9 from Barking Town Urban District Council Light Railways *47–52 Brush Electrical Engineering Company 1921 *37–40 Brush Electrical Engineering Company 1921 (replacing 37–40 of 1905) *51–60 Brush Electrical Engineering Company 1927 (51 and 52 replacing those of 1921) *61–70 Brush Electrical Engineering Company 1928 Closure The services were taken over by London Passenger Transport Board on 1 July 1933. References Trams in London East Ham {{UK-tram-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Ham
East Ham is a district of the London Borough of Newham, England, 8 miles (12.8 km) east of Charing Cross. East Ham is identified in the London Plan as a Major Centre. The population is 76,186. It was originally part of the Becontree Hundred, hundred of Becontree, and part of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Essex. London Government Act 1963, Since 1965, East Ham has been part of the London Borough of Newham, a Districts of England, local government district of Greater London. History Toponymy The first known written use of the term, as 'Hamme', is in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 958, in which King Edgar granted the London Borough of Newham#Manor of Ham, Manor of Ham, which was undivided at that time, to Ealdorman Athelstan. A subsequent charter on 1037 describes a transfer of land, which has been identified with East Ham, indicating that the first division of the territory occurred between 958 and 1037. The place name derives from Old English 'hamm' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick, Kerr & Co
Dick, Kerr and Company was a locomotive and tramcar manufacturer based in Kilmarnock, Scotland and Preston, England. Early history W.B. Dick and Company was founded in 1854 in Glasgow by William Bruce Dick. The company were initially oil refiners and manufacturers of paint used for coating the bottom of ships. They had depots and works in Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle, Barrow-in-Furness, Cardiff and Hamburg by 1890. From 1883 the company joined with John Kerr and under its new name, expanded into rail transport, supplying tramway equipment and rolling stock and built around fifty locomotives up to 1919. In 1885 Dick, Kerr and Co. started construction of 6 steam launches at its Britannia Works, Kilmarnock. In 1888 it produced the 'Griffin' gas engine which is described and illustrated in The Engineer. This 6-stroke engine was devised to get around Otto's patent of the 4-stroke cycle. By 1892 Dick, Kerr was producing gas engines in a wide range of sizes using the Otto principl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
