Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1887 The Patent Cable Tramways Corporation constructed a cable tramway in Edinburgh, running north from Princes Street, for the Edinburgh Northern Cable Tramway Company under the supervision of W. N. Colam; the contractor was Dick, Kerr and Co[1].
1889 A second cable tramway was opened by the company, within half a mile of the first line and operated by the same machinery[2]
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