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Carriage Company, and will be delivered within three
months. It is just possible that delivery may be anticipated
by ten days, but to secure a thoroughly good car, it is a
mistake to put them through too soon, as the Company
would suffer afterwards from the effect of hurried workmanship.
We have seen the London Tramways Company, and at
the present time cannot get them to work the line for us;
however, we intend to see them again on the same subject,
and if we cannot manage the matter with them, we may
get the South London Tramways to do it for us.
(Third) We enclose you a plan of the line into the
Depot, which we shall be glad if you will get the Vestry
to approve of to-night. As you can understand, until this
siding is put in, even if we were successful in getting the
Company indicated by us to work the line, they could not
do so until the siding is completed. Therefore you might
see your way to urge upon the Vestry to-night the importance
of giving their sanction for this work to be carried
out at once, as we are absolutely not in a position to
negociate closely until the siding is put in.
We are, &c.,
(Signed), Dick, Kerr & Co.,
Per. John Kerr, Managing Director.
Your Committee also had before them a further letter
from Mr. Fowle, dated the 23rd December last, asking
whether the Vestry desired that the Tramway should