Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company
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An AATC Brugeoise tram in 1913
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| Private company limited by shares | |
| Industry | Transportation |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Defunct | 1952 |
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Key people
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Bernard Docker, Samuel Hale Pearson |
| Services | Tramways, Underground |
| Owner | Sofina (after 1907) |
The Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company (Spanish: Compañía de Tramways Anglo Argentina), known simply as La Anglo in Argentina, was a large transportation company which operated the vast majority of the largest network trams in Buenos Aires, which was also one of the largest in the world at the time with its 875 km (544 mi) length. The company also created Buenos Aires' first underground tram line, which would go on to become Line A of the Buenos Aires Underground and owned other tramways around the country.
The company was founded in 1876 by British and Anglo-Argentine investors in order to acquire the existing Buenos Aires tramway network, within the context of the country's belle epoque, where it was receiving significant investments from foreign companies. By the turn of the century, the company owned a significant number of tramways throughout Argentina, most notably the Buenos Aires and Rosario Tramways. In Rosario the company opened its first line in 1886 and later bought five of the local tramway companies, while operating 106 km (66 mi) of lines there through concession.
in 1898 the Belgian company Sofina began acquiring shared in the AATC at a time when the company was electrifying its Buenos Aires network, where the company owned 120 km (75 mi) of lines by this point, as well as the electrification of the Rosario network, which was completed in 1908. By 1907, Sofina created a new company Compagnie Générale de Tramways de Buenos Aires to absorb the Anglo-Argentine and purchase other companies in the city and already by 1909 it had become the largest transport company in Argentina. The newly-formed company's shareholders were made up of a number of different nationalities and included prominent European investment banks such as Paribas and Deutsche Bank.
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