The Surveyor and municipal engineer . Leeds Ci Tramways Company or any other company. The followingare the lengths of the lines in tho various towns and districts :Handsworth (double track), 4 furlongs, 73 yards; WestBromwich (double), 5 miles, 179 yards; Tipton (single),4 miles, 2 furlongs, 183 yards; Dudley (single), 5 furlongs,73 yards; Coeoley (single), 6 furlongs ; Wednesbury (single),2 miles, 1 forlong, 77 yards; Wednesbury (single, but not of tho lines, tho corporation invited bids for the lease of thotramways, but none of the offers received were consideredsufficiently advan
The Surveyor and municipal engineer . Leeds Ci Tramways Company or any other company. The followingare the lengths of the lines in tho various towns and districts :Handsworth (double track), 4 furlongs, 73 yards; WestBromwich (double), 5 miles, 179 yards; Tipton (single),4 miles, 2 furlongs, 183 yards; Dudley (single), 5 furlongs,73 yards; Coeoley (single), 6 furlongs ; Wednesbury (single),2 miles, 1 forlong, 77 yards; Wednesbury (single, but not of tho lines, tho corporation invited bids for the lease of thotramways, but none of the offers received were consideredsufficiently advantageous. Meanwhile the working of thosystem was continued under tho direction of the town council,who had retained most of tho old staff. This arrangementhad proved quite successful, and the result gave encourage-ment to the popular desire to have the system remain under. worked), 2 furlongs, 37 yards ; Darlaston (single), 6 furlongs;the total being thus 14 miles, 4 furlongs, 182 yards. After this account of the existing lines tho report is cou-tinucd with description of systems in operation in townsvisited by the sub-committee. These wo may reproducepractically aa given in the The IrBmwaysin Leeds were originally oonstnutid in 1872,and extoudod in 1877, and tho liues were originally worked tho direct control of tho corporation. In November, lSli(i,the corporation decided to at onco equip the lino from Kirk-stall to Itoundhny. Tho electric tramway, opened Jnly 28, IS97, extends froma pointopposito the entranceto Kirkslall .\bboy,on the north,west outskirts of the city cf Leeds, to the north-easterly endof Irinces-avenno at Uoundlmy Park, a suburban resort inthe northUaetern dislrlol. The route is not direct, but forniBthe two arms of wliat uisy be roughly turnicd a right-angle, 638 THE SCJRYBTOR AND M[JNICIPAL [NOVKMBBR 18, 1898. tlie cen
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