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company in or under the surface of any streets or public placesin
which the tramways will be situate or in which it may be necessary
or desirable to do so in order to connect the tramways with
any generating- station, to construct, lay down, erect, maintain,
renew and repair electric wires, conductors, posts, studs, tubes,
boxes and other electrical apparatus for the purpose of connecting
any portions of the tramways with any generating stations,
engines, machinery, or apparatus; or any other purpose of the BilL
56. This Council was of opinion that a double line of tramways
should be constructed, and the road widened to not less than
54 feet throughout; that the plans of the proposed mode of construction
and making of crossovers should be approved by them
as well as by the Board of Trade; that the provisions of the Bill
which would authorise the company to lay down or erect wires
and other electrical apparatus in streets should be objected to;
that the paving of the carriageways outside the tramway rails,
where interfered with, should be carried out at the cest of the company
; that the Bill should be amended so as to give the road
authority powers to prevent an overhead system, and powers
respecting other systems of traction; that the proposed substitution
of sixty years for twenty-one years as the period after which
the tramways might be purchased should be objected to, and that
the Bill required amendment in other respects.
57. A Petition was accordingly presented to the House of
Commons against the Bill. The promoters intimated that they
did not propose to proceed with the Bill so far as it related to the
proposed tramways in this Borough, and agreed to a modification
of the Clause relating to the erection in or under streets, of posts,
wires, or other electrical apparatus. The Bill was withdrawn on
the 24th June, 1908.
Croydon and Southern District Tramways.
58. This Bill proposed to authorise a company to construct
tramways from the existing terminus of the Croydon
Corporation Tramways at Purley to Smithambottom,
Godstone, and Whyteleafe, in the County
of Surrey.
59. The only Clauses in the Bill which affected this Borough
were those which would authorise the Company to place posts,
boxes, wires, and other electrical apparatus in or under the