Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain

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Vol. 3 No. 11; May 1, 2006

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Lima Light Power & Tramways Company

by Jeffrey Turnbull

The Lima Light Power & Tramways Company (LLPTC) was formed in 1906 by a consortium of the railways and the electric company, Empresas Electricas Asociadas. It became permanent in 1909.

The first gasoline powered buses were introduced in Lima about 1920 and became serious competition for the LLPTC. By 1928 they had closed five of the urban routes, but they continued to re-invigorate the suburban lines.

They imported trolly buses from England and transformed them into trams.

The LLPTC closed completely in 1965; all that remains today is a 6-blocks length of track on which runs a rebuilt tram as a nostalgia run. The original relic from which to rebuild the tram was found in a local scrap yard.

The Overprints

The monogram of the Lima Light Power & Tramways Company in the upper-left corner of this card can be found as an overprint on various values of Peruvian revenue stamps.

For example, here it is on a receipt from 1934.

However, the Empresas Electricas Asociadas retained enough autonomy that it had its own overprint. Here is an example from a receipt from 1949:

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