West Ham Corporation Tramways


West Ham Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in the County Borough of West Ham between 1901 and 1933.

History

took over the North Metropolitan Tramways horse drawn services in stages starting on 1 July 1903. A programme of modernisation and electrification was undertaken, and the first electric services ran on 27 February 1904.
The company built up a fleet of 134 tramcars in a chocolate and cream livery.
The company experimented with trolley buses as early as 1912. At the annual conference of the Municipal Tramways Association from 25–27 September 1912, an Austrian Cédès-Stoll was the first trolleybus to carry passengers in London, along Greengate Street.

Closure

The services were taken over by London Passenger Transport Board on 1 July 1933.