Transport Revolution, 1770-1985

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  • Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
  • Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
  • Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
  • Name Government & business & industry policy

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First published 1974. Scholarly account. Mostly deals with individual modes - inland navigation; road transport before railways; coastal shipping; establishment of railways; their economic and social effects; 'Government and the railways, 1830-1914'; development of motor transport, 1885-1939; 'British transport policy, 1914-38'; 'British transport developments, 1939-79'. See also T C Barker, 'Transport revolution from 1770. Retrospective' in C Wrigley & J Shepherd (eds), On the Move. Essays in labour and transport history presented to Philip Bagwell, 1991