Talk:Transport Act 1947

Canals
Should this article not mention canals and the British Waterways Board too?--feline1 (talk) 13:22, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It already mentioned canals, under Overview. The British Waterways Board was not set up under this Act, but the Transport Act 1962, so is not relevant. However, its predecessor body, the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive, was set up under the Transport Act 1947, so I've added a paragraph concerning that and the other four Executives. -- Red rose64 (talk) 22:32, 11 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Cheers! The articles your Docks and Inland Waterways Executive links to don't actually mention it, though, referring to bodies with other names. So I am still confused :)
 * I do think there's scope for expanding the discussion of canal nationalisation - it involved compulsory purchase of a few dozen canal companies, and hundreds of miles of waterways.
 * Another thing in include might be a link to the corresponding Order that enacted the legislation in Northern Ireland and the creation of the Ulster Transport Authority.--feline1 (talk) 13:37, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * The post-1947 history of Britain's transport is complicated by the changing moods of various governments, who often equate an apparent "inefficiency" with bad management, and determine to improve efficiency by wholesale management change, combining and splitting established organisations almost on a whim. The Transport Act 1947 created the BTC and its five Executives which acted as intermediaries between the BTC and the railways, canals etc.; some of the Executives were abolished under the Transport Act 1953 after which the BTC controlled the railways, canals etc. directly (the London Transport Executive continued to exist); and then the Transport Act 1962 in effect recreated the Executives, but this time called Boards, and at the same time abolished the BTC. But this last was fifteen years after the Transport Act 1947, so I don't think that it's appropriate to describe events of several years later on an article dealing with one specific piece of legislation from 1947. A much more suitable place would be at British Transport Commission, where all of the 1947-63 events may be summarised, and described in greater detail if there is no currently existing article. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:46, 12 November 2013 (UTC)