RECORDS OF THE MEXBOROUGH AND SWITNON TRACTION COMPANY, LIMITED

Comprising: Letters from the Mexborough and Rawmarsh Construction Syndicate Ltd (in liquidation) to their shareholders distributing fully paid shares of £5 of the Mexborough and Swinton Tramways Company includes Liquidators; Account 1920 (3 items); Letters from the Mexborough and Swinton Tramways Company giving notice of Special General Meetings for the consideration of parliamentary bills 1926-1929 (1 bundle); Letter concerning the conversion of shares from the Mexborough and Swinton Tramways Company to the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company Dec 1929 (4 items); Notice for an Extraordinary General Meeting to raise additional capital 1932 (2 items); Letter from the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company giving notice of Special General Meetings for the consideration of approving a provisional order authorising the company to use trolley vehicles in the urban districts of Mexborough, Rawmarsh, Swinton and Wath-on-Dearne Dec1933 (2 copies); Notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting to submit to the proprietors a provisional order authorising the company to use trolley vehicles upon certain routes 1946 (2 items); Notices to consider passing the following resolutions: to register new articles of association and to capitalise their reserves bundle 1953-1954 (1 bundle); Letter from the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company Ltd giving notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting for the consideration of a parliamentary bill to discontinue the services of trolley buses Dece1959 (2 items)

The Mexborough and Swinton Tramways Company began business after the Mexborough and Swinton Tramways Acts and Orders were passed between 1902 and 1947. They provided the Urban Districts of Rawmarsh, Swinton, Mexborough, Conisbrough and part of Wath-upon-Dearne with electronic trolley vehicle services. In 1929, the company changed its name to the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company and became a limited company in 1953. By 1959 the provision of trolley vehicles, however, was not economically viable and the company chose to replace them with motor omnibuses.

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