In the North Staffordshire Potteries the British Electric Traction Company has pursued the same policy as in the Black Country with excellent result, as may be judged by the number of passengers in 1901. In the Potteries and the Black Country many millions made use of the tramways, the system throughout being that of the overhead trolley, and the combined length of track about 75 miles.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND RURAL TRAMWAYS
The whole question of local authority in its relation to rural tramways needs settling on a sound common-sense
FIG. 22. CAMPS BAY, CAPE TOWN, AND SEAPOINT TRAMWAYS
By Permission of Dick Kerr & Co., London.
basis, making the requirements of travellers the dominating object to the exclusion of petty differences and local aspirations and jealousy.[7]
If Great Britain is to be networked with these handy means of transport, and the interspaces of town and village bridged over with cobweb lines of trams, an Act of Parliament should settle a universal gauge, and on equitable terms provide for free running powers, whether in town or country, and encourage an interchange of traffic.