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2 unusual facts about Transport Board


Alexander Macleay

When the office was linked with the Transport Board after war broke out, Macleay became head of the correspondence department and by 1806 secretary.

Transport Board

In 1724 the Commission was disbanded and other Admiralty boards and several Departments of the War Office assumed its functions.



see also

Albert Stanley

Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield (1874–1948), British Conservative MP, Managing Director & Chairman of London Electric Railway; Chairman of London Passenger Transport Board

Bristol RE

From 1976 the RE remained in production only for the Northern Irish state-owned bus companies Ulsterbus and Citybus, and for export to Christchurch Transport Board, New Zealand.

Wotton railway station

Frank Pick, the Chief Executive of the London Passenger Transport Board, aimed to abandon freight operations on the London Underground network, and saw no way in which the more distant parts of the former Metropolitan Railway could ever become viable passenger routes.