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FROM RAIL TO ROAD AND BACK AGAIN?

Modern Economic and Social History Series

General Editor: Derek H. Aldcroft

Titles in this series include:

The American Reaper
Harvesting Networks and Technology, 18301910
Gordon M. Winder

Land, Proto-Industry and Population in Catalonia, c. 16801829
An Alternative Transition to Capitalism?
Julie Marfany

The Making of a World Trading Power
The European Economic Community (EEC) in the GATT Kennedy Round Negotiations (196367)
Lucia Coppolaro

Eastern European Railways in Transition
Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries
Edited by Ralf Roth and Henry Jacolin

Vicarious Consumers
Trans-National Meetings between the West and East in the Mediterranean World (17301808)
Manuel Prez-Garca

National Identity and the Agrarian Republic
The Transatlantic Commerce of Ideas between America and France (17501830)
Manuela Albertone

The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England
Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency
Leslie Rosenthal

British Mail Steamers to South America, 18511965
A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines
Robert E. Forrester

Money Pits: British Mining Companies in the
Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s
John Woodland

From Rail to Road and Back Again?

A Century of Transport Competition and Interdependency

Edited by

RALF ROTH
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany

COLIN DIVALL
University of York, UK

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright Ralf Roth, Colin Divall and the contributors 2015

Ralf Roth and Colin Divall have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

From rail to road and back again? : a century of transport competition and interdependency / edited by Colin Divall and Ralf Roth.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-4046-8 (hardcover)ISBN 978-1-3155-8349-5 (ebook)ISBN 978-1-3171-3185-4 (ePub) 1. TransportationGreat BritainHistory20th century. 2. TransportationEuropeHistory20th century. 3. TransportationUnited StatesHistory20th century. 4. RailroadsHistory20th century. 5. Motor vehiclesHistory20th century. 6. RoadsHistory20th century. 7. CompetitionHistory20th century. 8. Great BritainEconomic conditions20th century. 9. EuropeEconomic conditions20th century. 10. United StatesEconomic conditions20th century. I. Divall, Colin. II. Roth, Ralf.

HE243.F76 2015

388.0904dc23

2014031160

ISBN: 9781409440468 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781315583495 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN: 9781317131854 (ebk-ePUB)

The editors, authors and publishers have made every effort to trace the copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The publisher apologises for any errors or omissions and would be grateful if notified of any corrections that should be incorporated in any future reprints or editions of this book.

Contents

Ralf Roth

Ralf Roth

Roy Edwards

Colin Divall

Keith Harcourt

Terry Gourvish

Richard Vahrenkamp

Bruno Carrire

Albert J. Churella

Reiner Flik

Bruce E. Seely

Reiner Ruppmann

Peter Merriman

Mathieu Flonneau

Massimo Moraglio

Reiner Ruppmann

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

AA	Automobile Association
AASHO	American Association of State Highway Officials
AN	Archives Nationales
ANAS	Assozazione Nationale Auto Strade
ANMT	Archives nationales du monde du travail (National Labour Archives)
APLM	Archives du Paris-Lyon-Mditerrane
ARATP	Archives of the RATP
ASCT	Archivio Storico della Citt di Torino
ATM	Azienda Tranvie Municipali (Municipal Tram Company)
AVUS	Automobil-Verkehrs- und bungsstrae (Automobile Thoroughfare and Exercise Road)
B&O	Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
BDA	Bund Deutscher Arbeitgeber
BLPES	British Library of Political and Economic Science
BMO	Bulletin Municipal Officiel, the Official City Bulletin
BMV	Bundesministerium fr Verkehr (Ministry of Transport in Germany)
BP	British Petroleum
BPR	American Bureau of Public Roads
BRB	British Railways Board
BRF	British Road Federation
BRISA	Auto-estradas de Portugal S.A.
BTC	British Transport Commission
CEMT	Conference of European Minister of Transport
CNE	Conseil national conomique (National Economic Council)
COGSA	Carriage of Goods by Sea Act
CT	Container terminal
DAZ	Deutsches Architekturzentrum
DB AG	Deutsche Bahn AG
DIHT	Association of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce
DRG

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