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... | ¢ OF commission to pay, — Apply at once: TRAMWAY SERVICES W L 1 London’s tramway service dates from | 1861, when George Francis Train laid | the first lines. The project met with Berce opposition from bus proprietors, ' and Train averred that, to prove ...

Published: Friday 25 May 1923
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... for thought on this day in history - August 30. News 1860 - The first British tramway was inaugurated by an American, George Francis Train. 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner. 1939 - In anticipation of the German air raids, children were ...