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Albert Frost

He also served on the board of the state-owned British Airways – but was generally wary of nationalised industries, and took more persuading to lend his skills to British Leyland (BL), the strike-torn car maker.

Bank of Baroda

In 1967 it suffered a second loss of branches when the Tanzanian government nationalised BoB’s three branches there (Dar es Salaam, Mwanga, and Moshi), and transferred their operations to the Tanzanian government-owned National Banking Corporation.

Bloch MB.170

A design team at the former Bloch factory at Courbevoie (which had recently become part of the nationalised SNCASO), led by Henri Deplante, proposed the MB.170, a twin-engined, low-winged cantilever monoplane.

Bus Vannin

The nationalised service was characterised by its use of many second hand vehicles from England, a practice which continued until relatively recently, from a variety of sources including Liverpool Corporation, Preston Corporation and Ribble Motor Services.

Charles Worrod

Worrod is credited with recording songs of international status, such as Malaika (Fadhili William), Helule Helule (which later caught the interest of the British pop band, The Tremeloes), and the Kenyan-nationalised anthem-like Harambee.

CIÉ No. CC1

The first locomotives designed specifically to burn turf were three 0-4-0 well tank engines, built by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock, Scotland, and introduced by the nationalised turf producer Bord na Móna on its 3 ft (914 mm) gauge lines at Clonsast, near Portarlington, in 1949.

Cleveland Street, London

The future of this site is currently uncertain, despite its sale by nationalised Icelandic Kaupthing Bank to Aviva Investors and Exemplar Properties.

County Borough of West Ham

The corporation's electricity generation and supply undertaking was nationalised in 1948, when it was transferred to the London Electricity Board.

GWR 4073 Class 7028 Cadbury Castle

It is worth noting that although Cadbury Castle was of GWR design, she only served with BR, as she was built 2 years after the railways were nationalised.

Jacinto Convit

The son of Francisco Convit y Martí, a Spaniard with Catalonian roots who was nationalised in Venezuela, Convit was born in La Pastora, Libertador Municipality, Caracas.

Kabirwala

This was nationalised in 1970's under Zia's military dictatorship and then privatized again in 1980s under the name of EFFEF Industries.

Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd

In 1979 he became chairman of the National Bus Company which was then one of the largest nationalised industries.

Miles Beevor

He became chief legal advisor for London and North Eastern Railway in 1943, a post he held until the LNER was nationalised.

Néstor Ayala

After that season there was talk of Ayala becoming nationalised as a Salvadoran and playing for the national team, along with his teammate Alejandro de la Cruz Bentos, Vista Hermosa's Patricio Barroche and A.D. Isidro Metapán's Rodrigo Lagos.

Oxford to London coach route

Operations resumed in 1946, but by 1950 both Red & White and United Counties had been nationalised and were controlled by the British Transport Commission.

Park Gate Iron and Steel Company

In 1951 the 1945–51 Labour Government nationalised most large British iron and steel companies under the Iron & Steel Act 1949.

Poltava Art Museum

The artistic objects from the nationalised estates of the Kochubeys (in Dykanka), the Galagans (in Sokyrnytsi), the Kapnists (in Obukhivka), the Repnins (in Yahotyn) now were public ownership.

Renishaw, Derbyshire

To the north west of the village is Renishaw Hall, a country house belonging to the Sitwell family, who were owners of the local iron foundry before it was nationalised.

Ronnie Campbell

When the government nationalised Northern Rock in 2008, Campbell declared it the People's Bank and opened an account.

Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution

Whitfords Volunteer Sea Rescue Group - One of the 3 last independent charitable lifeboat stations left in Western Australia after the others came under the government FESA umbrella (some coerced, some voluntarily), the group and the other two still face government pressure to be nationalised)

São Paulo Railway

On 1946-09-13, the railroad was nationalised by the Brazilian government, and renamed the Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí, and on 1948-09-27, it was merged with most of the other Brazilian railways in to the Rede Ferroviária Federal, SA (RFFSA).

The company was nationalised in 1946 and became the Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí.

Shalimar, Lahore

Shalimar town was officially declared a township of Pakistan in 1962 when the main attraction of the area, the Shalimar Gardens were nationalised by General Ayub Khan.

SNECMA Atar 101

Communications between the ATAR group and SNECMA, the newly formed Nationalised engine manufacturer, proved to be difficult and the design team soon moved to Decize on the River Loire, to improve communications with SNECMA and was re-named Aeroplanes G.Voisin, Groupe 'O' .

South Shields, Marsden, and Whitburn Colliery Railway

On 1 January 1947 the coal company was vested in the National Coal Board so the railway became the first nationalised passenger line in Britain.

SS Coya

In 1975 the Peruvian Corporation was nationalised and Coyas ownership passed to the state railway company ENAFER.

Tony Cliff

This debate was linked to other discussions on the nationalised industries in Britain and the increasingly critical stance of Haston and the RCP as to the leadership of the Fourth International with regard to Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia in particular.

VEB Typoart

VEB Typoart was created by the government of the German Democratic Republic in 1948 through a merger of several nationalised type foundries, including Schelter & Giesecke (1945) and Ludwig Wagner AG (1960).


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