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The Commission at Work

In: The Nationalisation of British Transport

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  • Michael R. Bonavia

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The total life-span of the BTC was to be only fifteen years; and even this relatively short period was to be divided into two phases — from 1948 to 1953, and from 1953 to 1962, with progress towards execution of the chief tasks for which the Commission had been created virtually confined to the first phase. Even within that short span, no more than four years could be devoted to the original ‘grand design’ of integrated transport, since the Conservative government which took office in October 1951 quickly made known its intention drastically to revise the provisions of the Transport Act, 1947; it thus imposed a virtual standstill upon all those activities of the BTC of which the Conservatives did not approve.

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  • Michael R. Bonavia, 1987. "The Commission at Work," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Nationalisation of British Transport, chapter 6, pages 60-73, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08793-8_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08793-8_6
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