Nationalisation of British Transport. The early history of the British Transport Commission, 1948-1953

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The writer had sometime been an employee of the Commission. Scholarly account. Deals with the 'extraordinary concept of a single corporation exercising a monopoly of all public inland transport'. A focus is on the Commission's failure to establish an integrated transport system. Contents include: 'Setting the scene'; 'Drafting the Bill'; 'Consultation and opposition'; 'The Bill in Parliament'; 'Creating the organisation'; 'the Commission at work'; 'Creation of British Road Services'; 'The problems of the railways'; 'The bus groups'; 'Towards integration'; 'The ports and the canals'; 'London Transport'; 'The hotels and rail catering'; 'Labour relations'; 'User protection - the consultative committees'; 'The financial results'; 'Reversing direction - the 1953 Act'; 'The lessons learnt?'.