Official Guide to the Tramway Routes of the City of Leeds : Alfred Mattison : Leeds City Tramways : Corporation of Leeds : 1911 : map showing tramcar routes in Leeds & District

            A marvellously produced and presented booklet issued by the municipally owned and operated Leeds City Tramways, describing the network of trams and 'buses as well as giving information and history as to the suburbs and destinations traversed. It was produced for the Corporation by Alfred Mattison and was printed by the local company of Chorley & Pickersgill in 1911.

This copy is bound in leathercloth, possibly as a presentation copy, and as well as  the full colour front page has numerous illustration and contains a folding map of the system as well as timetables and fares information. The author, Alf Mattison (1868 - 1944) was an important local historian, author and politician being a founder member of the Independent Labour Party. Politically active from a young age during his employment at the Hunslet Engine Company he became an employee of the City Tramways Department in 1906. Sadly he was knocked down and killed by one of the Department's own tramcars in 1944.

Leeds had acquired the lines and services of the Leeds Tramway Company in 1893/4 but had introduced the UK's first overhead electrically operated route under its own auspices in 1891. The electrification of the system was largely complete  by 1901 and the Corproationw ent on to extend a number of routes into new suburbs during the next few decades and was a comparatively late abandonment in 1959; in post-WW2 years there had been serious discussions about construction of a central area tram subway but very sadly this was not pursued.

By 1911 they ran a small number of 'bus feeder routes, both horse and early petrol bus operated and they were about to inaugurate, on the same day as neighbouring Bradford, amongst the first trackless tram or trolleybus routes. The hoped for trackless routes are shown on the map as 'railless traction' although the majority of the lines shown here as 'to be constructed' were not. As well as Leeds lines the Bradford system is shown as are the lines from Stourton operated by the Yorkshire (West Riding) Electric Tramways Co. Ltd.

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