Imperial Tramways Company

In 1878 Imperial acquired the street tramway systems in Middlesbrough, Dublin (Southern District), Gloucester and Reading, plus the Corris Railway in Wales.

In 1894, Imperial formed London United Tramways to develop the moribund West Metropolitan system and, under the energetic leadership of Clifton Robinson, much of the system was electrified.

Control of LUT passed from Imperial in the 1900s (it was later acquired by the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933), and thereafter Imperial served more as an investment vehicle for the White family than as a developer of tramway systems.

The system in Stockton-on-Tees was acquired in 1896, and was electrified as a part of the Middlesbrough, Stockton and Thornaby Electric Tramways Company, re-opening in 1898.

This was taken over by the local council in 1921 and from 1926 buses began to replace it and the last tram ran on 9 June 1934.