Editing Hanwell (section)

===Transport===
[[File:Hanwell bridge with tramcar crossing.JPG|thumb|right|{{center|Tram crossing Hanwell Bridge}}]]
In 1901 the first electric [[trams]] began to run along the [[Uxbridge Road]], causing the population of the village to expand faster than with the arrival of the trains half a century before. First however, the tram company had to strengthen Hanwell Bridge, as well as widen it on its north side. A [[balustrade]], which survives to this day, lines each side. Another stipulation placed upon the company was that the standards to support the [[catenary]] also had to be able to double as street [[lamppost]]s. The cars cost £1,000 each yet the ordinary fare from [[Shepherd's Bush]] to [[Uxbridge]] was only 8<sup>d</sup>. [[File:Tram in hanwell boston road.JPG|thumb|{{center|Tram in Boston Road, Uxbridge Road is behind}}|left]]
A route from [[Brentford]] to Hanwell was introduced on 26 May 1906.<ref name="Meads R J 1983 page 32">Meads R J (1983). Southall 830 – 1982, page 32. {{ISBN|0-86303-112-9}}.</ref>

A tram depot (later converted into a trolleybus depot and then into a bus garage) was located on the [[Uxbridge Road]]. It was closed down in 1993 and the land has been converted into a retail park.

[[AEC Routemaster]] buses were built at the [[Associated Equipment Company|AEC]] factory in Windmill Lane and much of the fuel injection equipment and electrical systems were manufactured by [[Lucas CAV#CAV|CAV Ltd]] who had a factory in [[Acton Vale, London|Acton Vale]].<ref name="Meads R J 1983 page 32"/><ref>Meads R J (1983). Southall 830 – 1982, page 54. {{ISBN|0-86303-112-9}}.</ref> The large Routemaster tyres were moulded and cured, just to the south on the Great West Road in [[Brentford]] by the [[Firestone Tire and Rubber Company]] whose [[Firestone tyre factory (London)|factory]] was opened there in 1928.<ref>A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington (1962), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22279 Heston and Isleworth: Economic and social history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019120136/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22279 |date=19 October 2013 }}, pages 114–119. Retrieved 27 August 2008.</ref>

Trolley buses were introduced in 1936 and ran until the early 1960s.<ref>A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982),. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22573 Ealing and Brentford: Communications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525204258/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22573 |date=25 May 2011 }} pages 101–105. Retrieved 27 August 2008.</ref>

Plans to reintroduce trams in the form of the [[West London Tram]] scheme were suggested, but then abandoned by [[Transport for London]] in 2007 in the face of local opposition.