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Bradmore Lane. Further proceedings were taken against
the five who had disregarded the Magistrate's decision,
which were heard on the 9th March, but a few days before
then the men had discontinued the practice, and consequently
only small penalties were inflicted, and none of the costermongers
have taken up positions in King Street since.
(g) Tramways from Queen Street to Putney.
On the 10th June, 1905, the London County Council
informed the Borough Council that it had made application
to the Board of Trade for approval of the conduit system of
electrical traction proposed to be adopted for the tramway
from Queen Street, Hammersmith, to Putney, and furnished
a copy of the drawings showing the system of traction,
together with a statement of the materials to be used for
the work. The London County Council proposed to use
granite setts for paving the whole of the space between the
rails throughout, as all wood at present used for street
paving was subject to very considerable expansion from wet
and from frost, and difficulty had been experienced where
portions of the conduit tracks had been paved with wood.
The Borough Council very strongly objected to the
substitution of granite setts for wood paving between the
tramway tracks in this Borough, on the ground of the
great nuisance and annoyance which would be caused by the
passing of the general traffic thereon, and made representations
to the Board of Trade and to the County Council in
favour of the adoption of hard wood paving as the material
to be used.
The London County Council declined to agree to this
proposal, and the Board of Trade, in giving their decision
on the 21st August, stated that after careful consideration
of the objections brought to them by the Borough Council
and of the London County Council's reply thereto, the
Board had approved, in pursuance of the London County
Council (Electrical Power) Act, 1900, the plans showing the
rail, paving, sub-structure and electrical arrangements proposed
for the County Council tramways in question within
the Borough, subject to any agreements between that
Council and the Borough Council in regard to the points
which had been brought before the Department.
At the date of this report joint action is being taken
with the Fulham Borough Council in a further endeavour to
obtain an alteration of the decision to use granite setts.