Ottoman/Turkey/Levant - Electricity and Tramways of Smyrne (Izmir) - 1927 - RARE

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Ottoman/Turkey/Levant - Electricity and Tramways of Smyrne (Izmir) - 1927 - RARE
‘Societe Generale de Tramways de Transports et d’Electricite a Smyrne’ The company was established in Brussels in 1909 with the purpose of setting up an electricity network, of selling electricity to the subscribers and of operating electric trams in Izmir. It was only in 1913 that the authorization to supply electricity to the city but it appears a combination of lack of real interest and the intervention of WWI halted developments and the main activity of the Company remained with the tramways, the electricification project only started in the republican period. 1944 the works passed from the Belgian Company to the Municipality, upgraded for higher capacity a few times and then decommissioned in 1989.
Issuer :
Electricity and Tramways of Smyrne (Izmir)
Type : share
Nominal :
500 francs
Country : Belgium
Place :  Brussels
Issue date : 1927
Cancelled : No
Coupons : Yes
Quality : VF-, folded multiple times, small cut on the fold (see photo)
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