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The Creation of British Road Services

In: The Nationalisation of British Transport

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  • Michael R. Bonavia

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In the early years of the BTC, the creation of a nationalised road haulage business, offering a country-wide service and dominating the road haulage industry, stands out as a remarkable achievement. For many years transport historians and economists had quoted the road haulage business as one in which the optimum size of undertakings tended to be small — where the disadvantages of size often tended to outweigh the advantages.1 The successful establishment of British Road Services, by the end of 1951 comprising 3766 former haulage firms and 41 265 motor lorries, proved that such views were not necessarily correct.

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  • Michael R. Bonavia, 1987. "The Creation of British Road Services," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Nationalisation of British Transport, chapter 7, pages 74-82, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08793-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08793-8_7
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