Arkansas Power & Light Company

Arkansas Power and Light (AP&L) owned forty-three miles of electric street trolley lines in central Arkansas, carrying a total of 10.5 million passengers, in 1933. The 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act and World War II rationing pressured AP&L into divesting itself of electric trolleys owned through its wholly-owned Capital Transportation Company. The company and its franchise were transferred to P. E. McChesney and the Courtesy Transportation Company on November 14, 1950, which in turn was reorganized as the Capitol Transit Company operated by F. Norman Hill.