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Cardiff Tramways Company operated an horse tramway service in Cardiff between 1872 and 1902.〔The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis.〕 ==History== The Provincial Tramways Company was floated in July 1872 by means of a prospectus inviting public subscription for shares in a new company.〔'The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jul 16, 1872; pg. 13; Issue 27430.〕 The published prospectus stated an intention to set up horse tramway companies in various towns including Cardiff. Within a year those in Plymouth and Cardiff were in operation as reported to the half yearly meeting of the company in 1873.〔The Morning Post (London, England), Thursday, April 03, 1873; pg. 7; Issue 31437.〕 Cardiff Tramways Company was a wholly owned subsidiary company of The Provincial Tramways Company and its first horse tramways were in operation by July 1872 from High Street in the city center to the Docks, and eventually 6 miles of route were operated. On 10 December 1877, the Council approved the operation of services on Christmas Day, subject to some improvements in the operation of the service in general and to the removal of the smell arising from the bad oil used in lighting the cars.〔'Council Minutes: 1876-80', Cardiff Records: volume 4 (1903), pp. 493-514〕 In 1887 after a protracted trading war with the horse bus operations of Solomon Andrews in Cardiff, Plymouth and Portsmouth a settlement was reached whereby The Provincial Tramways Company bought the operations of Solomon Andrews in those towns, full details of the settlement were reported at the companies 30th AGM.〔Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), Wednesday, November 30, 1887; Issue 5785〕 1889 was a year marked by several industrial disputes between the tramway company and its staff reaching a climax at the end of June with serious disorder on the streets as strikers successfully stopped the trams operating.〔Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), Monday, July 1, 1889; Issue 6278〕 In 1898, Cardiff County Borough Council obtained Parliamentary powers to take over all the tramways in the area and go ahead with the new electric trams, owning them from 1902, under the revised name Cardiff Corporation Tramways. The company was operating 52 horse tramcars at the beginning of 1902 when most of the tramways was purchased by the council.〔The Provincial Press, No14 September 2006〕 From 1902 the Cardiff Tramways Company continued to operate its horse buses in Cardiff until 1908, from 1907 it had started to operate motor buses and gradually developed a motor bus fleet of various types. This operation ended on the 1st October 1922 when the business, goodwill and assets of the company were sold to Cardiff Corporation.〔The Provincial Press, No18 September 2007〕 The company was finally put into voluntary liquidation and wound up in 1936.〔The London Gazette, 27th November 1936 pg7682〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cardiff Tramways Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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