In 1892, The Times reported that the Multiple Speed and Traction Company had taken offices in the Morse Building to market its "endless traveling sidewalk".
If he has any sense, Sir Richard Branson could give his appalling train service a new image by renaming it something long and comforting, such as: The West Country, English Midlands, North-West and Scottish Electrical Traction Company.
The Lock Haven Electric Railway, managed by the Lock Haven Traction Company and after 1900 by the Susquehanna Traction Company, ran passenger trolleys between Lock Haven and Mill Hall, about 3 mile to the west.
On 8 June 1902, the UERL took over the Traction Company and paid off the company's shareholders with cash and UERL shares.
The Omaha Traction Company, which operated as the Street Railway Company, changed its name to the Omaha Transit Company when streetcar service ended in the city in 1952.
From February 1938 to July 1953, the Johnstown Traction Company operated transit buses from Johnstown to Westmont with the "fully loaded public buses" being carried by the incline.
Through the UERL's shareholding in the London and Suburban Traction Company (LSTC), which it owned jointly with British Electric Traction, the UERL took control in 1913 of the London United Tramways, the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and the South Metropolitan Electric Tramways.
Gurvits: I co-founded an online legal services company in Holland, made a small exit in 2011, moved to Bulgaria to found my next company, instead got involved in setting up an EU-backed accelerator (Eleven), then moved out to do personal investments, and ended up raising a private fund for regional post-traction companies (Teres Capital).
Post-traction companies can use the old numbers - you can't.
Your pre-traction company has not, and so it has a hard time hiring.
