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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 466

Birkenhead Tramways Company, 6% preference shares of £10, 18[81], no.784, lovely vignette of the Woodside Ferry terminus with horse drawn tram waiting to depart, several ships at the dockside, red, good very fine and scarce.

Formed in 1877 to purchase the existing Birkenhead Street Railway Company founded by George F. Train. In 1878 the company took over the Hoylake and Birkenhead Tramway company but later fell into financial trouble as was liquidated in 1888. The line was purchased by the Birkenhead United Tramways, Omnibus and Carriage Company.

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£150