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DWT - Records of Wantage Tramway Company Limited

Expand 1 - Capital Account ledgers and minutes

3 - Printed notices calling the ordinary General Meeting of the Company and setting out the balance sheet with revenue and profit and loss account and capital account, together with Auditors' Certificate and Report (1943 missing).

4 - Annual lists of dividends on shares, ordinary and preferred, paid to each shareholder.

5 - Share certificates and transfer certificates.

6 - Form E as required by the Companies Acts, 1908-1917.

7 - Handbill calling a meeting of those interested in the formation of the Company.

8 - Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company.

9 - Draft Provisional Order of the Board of Trade for construction of the Tramway (printed).

10 - Order to amend Provisional Order of the Board of Trade for construction of the Tramway.

11 - Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, mainly concerning construction of line, compliance with statutory obligations prior to construction and early running of the Tramway.

12 - Miscellaneous papers.

13 - Inventory of Stock.

14 - Sale particulars of equipment sold on liquidation of Company.

15 - Plan of piece of meadow land proposed to be purchased by the Company.

16 - Board of Trade rules on provisional orders under the Tramways Act, 1870 (2 copies).

17 - Certificate of incorporation of the Company.

18 - Directors' first report to shareholders.

19 - Tenders from contractors for construction of the Tramway.

20 - Tenders for construction of the Tramway station.

21 - Agreement of the Company with Philip Ward of Handsworth, Birmingham, for construction of the tramway, 1874, with vouchers and related papers.

22 - Various bills and correspondence, 1874-1878, 1946,, including offer of a locomotive, 1878.

23 - Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, including 2 letters from J.F. Errington Barnes (Civil engineer) on the proposed tramway, 1873, and printed statement of capital account, 1876.

24 - Letters from Edward Walmisley, (Parliamentary Agent), to Edward Ormond of Wantage, solicitor for the Company, on obtaining a provisional order authorising construction of the Tramway, 1873-1876; printed copy of the Provisional Order, 1874 and of amending Order, 1876 and papers, including detailed bill of agent's expenses, 1873-1874.

25 - Correspondence, mainly with the Board of Trade, and sealed copy of the Company's byelaws, 1877.

26 - Agreements of the Company with James Sims as delivery agent, 1875 and as Goods Manager, 1878; inventory and valuation of the vehicles, etc., owned by Sims, 1876.

27 - Agreements between the Company and the Great Western Railway Company:

28 - Copies of returns to the Board of Trade.

29 - Letter to the Directors of the Company from Thomas Nalder of Nalder and Nalder Limited of Challow Iron Works, on inspection of its steam tramway car.

30 - Report of the Directors for the half year to 1 April 1876.

31 - Application by the Company to the London and County Banking Company for a guarantee of general balance of account.

32 - List of Besselsleigh Road Turnpike tolls.

33 - Draft half-yearly accounts.

34 - Printed half-yearly accounts.

35 - Agreement by the Guarantee Society, as guarantors of J.G. Spencer while employed as Manager by the Company.

36 - Annual returns of receipts and expenditure, to the Board of Trade.

37 - Directors' annual reports and statements of accounts.

38 - Contract with the Postmaster General for conveyance of mail.

39 - Printed statement of accounts for the year ending 30 September 1919

40 - Report of the Committee of Investigation into the Company, appointed at the extraordinary meeting of shareholders of January, 1920.

41 - Printed notices calling the annual ordinary General Meetings of the Company, and setting out the balance sheet, 1922-1942, 1944-1946.

42 - Agreement between the Company and the Anglo-American Oil Company Limited for the lease of land near the Wharf at Wantage and conveyance of oil, etc., 1924, with lease of additional land, 1925.

43 - Correspondence with the Great Western Railway on removal of Tramway lines (with plan).

44 - Statement of accounts of the Company, with auditor's report.

45 - Printed sale particulars: the Lower Goods Yard and land.

46 - Printed sale particulars: The Upper Goods Yard, Weedon's Coal Yard, garages and offices owned by the Company.

47 - Plan of proposed permanent way for the Tramway (c.1873?); plan of the station, etc., at Mill Street, Wantage, 1910.

48 - Share certificates of H.E.D. de Vitre.

49 - Sealing machine of Company.

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