Highgate Hill Cable Tramway
Owner The Steep Grade Tramways and Works Company (a subsidiary of the Patent Cable Tramways Corporation)
Opened 29th May 1884 (cable)
Operator The Steep Grade Tramways and Works Company
Liquidation 7th July 1886 (the SGT&WCo enters liquidation)
Operator The Patent Cable Tramways Corporation (presumably)
Liquidation 14th January 1888 (the Patent Cable Tramways Corporation enters liquidation)
Taken over 11th August 1888 (Dick Kerr and Company) - purchased all the assets of the former Patent Cable Tramways Corporation from the liquidator)
Taken over 1889 (Highgate and Hampstead Cable Tramways Limited)
Liquidation April/May 1892 (H&HCTLtd enters liquidation)
Closed 5th December 1892 (following an accident)
Taken over 14th August 1896 (Highgate Hill Tramways Limited)
Reopened 19th April 1897
Taken over 24th August 1909 (London County Council)
Closed 24th August 1909
Length 0.71 miles
Gauge 3ft 6ins
Button description Pattern of button unknown
Comment A photograph taken during the early years of the tramway (see link), when it was owned by the Steep Grade Tramways and Works Company, clearly shows that uniforms were worn. However, given that marked buttons are yet come to light, it seems likely that they were either plain, or possibly, that they bore a monogram or device which renders them difficult to identify. Following the demise of the Patent Cable Tramways Company in 1888, informal attire appears to have been the order of the day.