Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries

148 individuals. Yet they are not exhaustive. The omnibuses owned by Tilling’s, French’s, Bull’s, Ball’s, and many smaller firms, must carry in the aggregate many addi- tional millions of pas- sengers annually. If by any chance its street-cars ceased to run even for a day London would, in fact, seem stricken with paralysis. The shops in the West, the warehouses in the East, the offices in the City, would all feel the ominous torpor. And the Riverside, from Woolwich to Battersea, usually alive with ten thousand signs of commercial activity, would bear gloomy testimony to the close relationship between the hum of trade and cheap street transit. The London Tramway service is practic- ally monopolised by the North Metropolitan Company and the County Council. The BRITAIN AT WORK. lines south of the Thames are worked mainly by the Council, and as a rule converge upon the Bridges. North of the River is the province of the North Metropolitan, and its lines run generally Citywards. It links such distant points as Lea Bridge and Bloomsbury, Stamford Hill and Holborn. Moorgate Street, where the offices of the North Metro- politan are situated, is a leading terminus, being connected with Highgate and Finsbury Park by a route which taps a densely populated district. To the battalions of labourers, by whose sweat London throbs throughout the weary night, the trams are a priceless boon, for they run without intermission during the whole twenty- four hours. The North Metropolitan Company employ eight thousand horses and four thousand men ; the County Council only half that number of horses to three thousand men. The North Metro- politan require six hundred cars; the County Council maintain a continuous night and clay service with two hundred less. THE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY’S STABLES AT HOLLOWAY. The London County