| Description | Papers and correspondence, originally Clement Attlee's file, relating to general transport policy: the Labour and Trade Union campaign against the Transport Bill, railway finances, canals, renationalisation of road transport and the M1 motorway (81) 1952-1962:
Correspondence: up to 1956 between Clement Attlee and LP officers, Carol Johnson (PLP) and Ernest Davies, including a copy letter Ernest Davies to Herbert Morrison: after 1956 between Gaitskell and Ernest Davies, Ernest Popplewell, LP officers and Ministry of Transport staff (44) 1952-1956
Papers:
Transport Bill Working Party Sub-Committee minutes and papers 1952
Memorandum by the British Road Federation concerning the transport levy Dec 1952
Memorandum by Ernest Davies on Road Haulage Denationalisation Nov 1954
Finance and Economic Policy Sub-Committee papers, including a note by Harold Wilson on Railway Finances, dated Jan 1955 ?dates
Memorandum on the Committee of Inquiry into Canals 1956
PLP Memorandum by Ernest Davies 'Re-Nationalisation of Road Transport' 1958
Ministry of Transport press notices about the London-Yorkshire Motorway (M1) 1960-1962
Pamphlets:
'Notes on Tory Transport Policy' (LP) (2 copies) [1952]
Transport Bill 1952
'Transport Policy' (HMSO) 1952
'Railways Reorganisation Scheme' 1954
Transport (Borrowing Powers) Bill 1954
'Interim Report of a Court of Inquiry into a Dispute between the British Transport Commission and the National Union of Railwaymen' (HMSO) 1955. |