British Road Services
British Road Services was a public transport company in the United Kingdom .
British Road Services was founded in 1948 as a result of the Transport Act 1947 as part of the nationalization of the British transport industry. In the 1960s it was divided into four business areas, British Road Services Ltd. (Road traffic), BRS Parcels Ltd. (Parcel services), Pickfords (transport and logistics) and Containerway & Roadferry Ltd. (Ferry and container traffic).
Renamed National Freight Corporation in 1969 , the company was sold to employees as part of the Margaret Thatcher government's break-up of state-owned companies in 1982 and continued as the National Freight Consortium . The company was among the first to be privatized by the Conservative government. As one of the largest British transport companies, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1989 and included in the FTSE 100 index as NFC plc .
BRS Parcels Ltd. was renamed Roadline and was spun off by way of a management buyout under the name LYNX Express in 1997. Pickfords went to Allied Van Lines in 1999 , the rest of the company merged with Ocean Group plc in 2000 and henceforth formed Exel plc , which was later taken over by Deutsche Post .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gordon Mustoe, BRS Parcels Services and The Express Carriers ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Railway road haulage services ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Pickfords: History
- ↑ a b NFC and Ocean forge £ 3.2bn alliance to exploit e-commerce The Independent, 22 February 2000
literature
- EJ Gubbins: Managing Transport Operations . Kogan Page. ISBN 0-7494-3928-9 (English)