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The London County Council's River Steamboat Service

The London County Council's River Steamboat Service AbstractIn the 1850s there was a busy passenger steamboat traffic along the Thames provided by private companies. By 1902 there was none, but then in 1905 the London County Council, then under control of the Progressives, inaugurated a new service. It was abandoned as a failure after little more than two years. This paper explores the economic background to the decision to run a municipal service, asks why it failed and seeks to answer why the LCC persisted in its belief that such a service could ever work, given that attempts to re-establish a private enterprise service had previously been unsuccessful. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present Taylor & Francis

The London County Council's River Steamboat Service

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2003 Maney Publishing
ISSN
1749-6322
eISSN
0305-8034
DOI
10.1179/ldn.2003.28.2.54
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Abstract

AbstractIn the 1850s there was a busy passenger steamboat traffic along the Thames provided by private companies. By 1902 there was none, but then in 1905 the London County Council, then under control of the Progressives, inaugurated a new service. It was abandoned as a failure after little more than two years. This paper explores the economic background to the decision to run a municipal service, asks why it failed and seeks to answer why the LCC persisted in its belief that such a service could ever work, given that attempts to re-establish a private enterprise service had previously been unsuccessful.

Journal

The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and PresentTaylor & Francis

Published: Nov 1, 2003

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