Entries for the tag ‘Leeds Tramways Company (1871-94)’
Services run by the Corporation from 1894 after the lease wasn't renewed, and the Corporation, failing to find another operator, began running the service officially in 1897. 
- 24 October 1877: Six years after the inauguration of its horse trams, the Leeds Tramways Company tests a steam car by Kitson and Co. of Hunslet
- 14 December 1892: Experts tell the High Court that electromagnetic interference from Leeds’s 1891 overhead electric tramway to Roundhay – the nation’s first – has brought down the local telephone service
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