THE NATIONALISATION OF BRITISH TRANSPORT THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION, 1948-53

• Main Author: Bonavia, Michael R. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Macmillan Press 1987
• Subjects: British transport commission > History
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 Historians have paid much attention to the achievements of the Labour government led by Clement Atlee between 1945 and 1951 the establishment of the welfare state, the virtual dismantling of the British Empire, and the nationalisation programme which led to the mixed economy of public and private enterprise. But insufficient notice has been taken of the extraordinary concept of a single corporation exercising a monopoly of all public inland transport, the British Transport Commission, probably because- unlike most of the creations of the Attlee government-it never fully functioned as it was intended to do, and was finally abolished after only fifteen years of chequered existence.