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A History of the British Steam Tram - Volume 7
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by David Gladwin - Published by Adam Gordon 2009
Foreword
PART 1

Section 1: Steam Tramways by Hall
Borough Surveyor, Stockton.

Section 2: Acts of Parliament
Extracts from The Tramways Act 1870; s.77 & schedule, Glyn Valley Tramways Act 1870; Birkdale & Southport Tramways Order 1882; North Metropolitan Tramways Act 1884; Wigan Tramways Order 1884; extracts from Wigan Corporation Act 1902; Drypool & Marfleet Tramways Order 1886; Drypool & Marfleet Steam Tramways Order 1890; Dudley bye-laws and regulations; Light Railways Act 1896; Engineering article on Applications for Tramway Powers, 1885.

Section 3: Arbitration
Accrington Corporation Steam Tramways Co. and Haslingden & Rawtenstall Corporation re the valuation of the tramway; Aston Tramways Company and the Aston Manor Urban District Council, again re valuation of tramway; Board of Trade reference as to whether Manchester, Bury, Oldham and Rochdale Steam Tramways Co. was insolvent; North Staffordshire Tramways Co. schedule of accounts.

Section 4: British Electric Traction Co.
Extracts from Directors’ Reports; proposals from BET to Accrington Corporation; General Powers Bill & The Industrial Freedom League; Accrington – conversion from steam to electric, report of the Borough Engineer; agreement between BET & Birmingham & Midland Tramways Ltd; BET Annual Report 1901; “BET in South Staffordshire”; articles on the Bideford Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway, and the Swansea & Mumbles Railway; the story of the Potteries Motor Traction Co. Ltd.

Section 5: Birmingham’s Public Works Department
Their tramways; maps; byelaws and regulations; extracts from PWC reports, 1880-1902; freight; Leeds tramways minute book entries; agreement between North Birmingham Tramways Co., & John Fell and others.

Section 6: Board of Trade
Returns re capital authorised, paid up and expended, length of tramway authorised and length open; gross receipts, working expenditure and net receipts; number of passengers conveyed and number of miles run by cars, to 30.6.1902; feature on tramway stocks and shares, with extracts from Duncan’s Tramway Manual 1891 with analyses of accounts, plus directory of directors, officials, engineers, auditors and other firms and individuals connected with tramway enterprise; more on boiler explosions.

Section 7: Cruelty to horses
Featuring in particular the Tynemouth area.

Section 8: Experimental
Experimental steam engines and carriages and emergence of steam trams; compressed air; Mékarski; Brown; the Dickinson car; two Yorkshire tram engines; Fireless; carriage of coal on tramways; Merryweather; cable trams and featuring Birmingham; caustic soda engines; Trafford Park Tramways and the Serpollet car.

Section 9: Foreign Tramways
Castlederg & Victoria Bridge Tramway revisited; map of Dublin & Blessington/Poulaphouca steam tramways; steam engines of Irish steam tramways and Irish roadside light railways; Irish Appendix – petitions re use of steam engines or locomotives on common roads; France – Lille, Paris and Rouen; Lisbon; USA; Netherlands; Germany; North Italy; Turkey; New Zealand; Nigeria; Australia – the Sydney Steam Tramway by Shellshear; Belgium, Luxemburg and Denmark.

Section 10: Locomotive Manufacturers
Fox Walker, Henry Hughes, Falcon, & Milnes.

Section 11: Locomotive Power and Rolling Stock
Mr Foot’s New Car Works at Preston; Rowan obituary; Heating; Mechnical Power on Tramways, by N. Watts; Marland Light Railway; The Headingley Steam Tram-Cars; Magisterial Proceedings (emission of steam); more on W. Wilkinson; Parsons’ notes on locomotive planning; Apsey’s Patent steam tram car; paper by W. Southorn on Street Tramways, in particular contrasting different forms of power; sale of Bradford trams, engines and tools; Bury, Rochdale and Oldham arbitration – sale of land and depot buildings; some John Stephenson cars; miscellaneous features on car lighting and brakes; accident at Dudley.

PART 2

Section 12: Locomotive and Rolling Stock Fittings
(Gabriel & Co.); advertisements for Henschel & Sohn.

Section 13: Patents
G.F.Train; Merryweather and Field boilers; A.M. Clark (agent for Jean Larmanjat) on Tramway and other Locomotive Engines; Palmer Harding (Hughes exhaust system); Kitson on valve gearing; Peacock and Lange, locomotive improvements; Russell on condensers; Kirk on chairs and sleepers; A.L. Lineff and W. Jones on electrical power; Cock on track cleaning; Pauwels on line cleaning; Bullough on tram brakes; Roche on cleaning rails; Hewin on spring tram starters; Wise on surface contact systems; Ghent & Colbran on sanding tracks; Piers on hydraulic engines; Littlejohn on points (switches); Stölting on track cleaning etc.; McEwan on spring assisters; Hopkins on compressed air starter; King on spring assisters; Gooding on the use of plain wheels; Schott on lifeguards; Ayles on awnings; Holt on lifeguards; Ducimetière on re-railers; Kennington and White on brakes; Kemmish on drilling cramps; Dickinson’s patents.

Section 14: Liquid Fuel Engineering Co.
Directions for raising steam in water tubular boilers fitted with patent liquid fuel burners, and for working compound engines manufactured by LIFU.

Section 15: Tangled Webs
Manchester, Bury, Rochdale & Oldham Rules & Regulations 1885; MBRO v. City of London Contract Corporation and some exploits of Osborne O’Hagan; all about John Fell; Magdeburg Tramways Co.; William John Carruthers Wain and the Tramways Institute, and prosecution for fraud; more on the Tramways Institute; effects of unionisation; indecent assault charge against tramway manager; Fidelity and Workmen’s Compensation; The Workmen’s Compensation Act 1897; more on accidents; wages; changes in lifestyles; People, Pleasures and Peccadillos.

Section 16: Permanent Way and Contractors
Tramway construction by G. Stephenson; miscellaneous cuttings; extension of the Dundee Street Tramways by A. Greig; Kerr’s Patent Rail Formation; more on Accrington and Council debates; railway chemistry; rail wear; more on permanent way; the Demerbe system by W. Dawson; pointwork and other aspects of rails; Mechanical (Branch) Department; Birmingham and Midland contract.

Section 17: Parliamentary Select Committees
Report and minutes of evidence given by notables in the tramway world on the subject of horse and steam tramways – Sir W. Fairbairn, L. Fletcher, J. Grantham, Major General C. Hutchinson, H. Merryweather, H. Calcraft, G. Stevenson, H. Hughes, S. Alley, D. Paterson, W. Scott-Moncreif.

Section 18: Tramway Statistics
1875-1876 – accidents, working and general expenses per mile, track repairs etc.

Section 19: Tickets and Timetables
Workmen’s cars; guide “Dundee from the Tramway Cars”; fare boxes; Bradford Tramways & Omnibus Company Ltd – crossing places during a fog; limitation of liability.

Section 20: Traction in Transition
“The Future of Tramways” in 1883; early days for trams in Birmingham; assessing reasons for success and failures of tramway operations; more about trams in Birmingham; report into Birmingham Central Tramways Co., Birmingham Association for Suppressing Steam Tram Nuisances; feature on Dudley & Wolverhampton tramways; trial of the first Elwell-Parker Birmingham tram; Connolly Gas Tramway Motor; Daimler Narrow Gauge Self Propelled Tramcar; The Mékarski System; contemporary article on electric traction; different kinds of power for tramways; article on the design and construction of the electric tramway car, 1903/4.

Section 21: Peter Hammond’s Model Trams

Section 22: Street Tramways Lines by Steam Power

Section 23: The Last Word
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