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The leading British firms in Burma were the Burma Oil Company, which controlled the oil industry, Steel Brothers and Company Limited, which worked in oil, rice and general trading business, the Rangoon Electric Tramway and Supply Company Limited, the Anglo-Burma Tin Company , and the Burma Corporation Limited, which operated the Bawdwin Mines.<ref>Google Books snippet search result from [http://books.google.com/books?id=A6I1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Rangoon+Electric+Tramway%22+and+Supply+Company%22&dq=%22Rangoon+Electric+Tramway%22+and+Supply+Company%22&hl=en&ei=pVckTa-rDY-qcbaMwecB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBDg8 ''Joint international business ventures in the Union of Burma''], page 18 by U. Tun Thin 1959.</ref>
The book ''Electric Traction in the Burmese Capital: A History of the Rangoon Electric Tramway and Supply Company, Limited'' by Robert P Sechler 1981 is available at the [http://www.tramway.co.uk/our-collections/26/library-catalogue-details/9592/rangoon-electric-tramways/ National Tramway Museum, Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire] and [https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=6880675&DB=local Cornell University Library], Ithaca, NY, USA Also refer ''Twentieth century impressions of Burma: its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources'' by Arnold Wright in [[Burma#Online books|Online books]] below
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