Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,240 pages of information and 244,492 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.
1871 Parliamentary powers were sought to enable the incorporation of the Leeds Tramways Company[1]
1891 Thomas Whitehead became chief engineer to the Roundhay Electric Tramways Company,
1893 Leeds Electric Tramway Co successfully defended a case brought by the National Telephone Co concerning electrical interference.
1900 The Leeds Corporation Act empowered the Corporation to lay down tramways, extending the powers it had under the 1896 Act[2]
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