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1920 Pickfords
is taken over by the Hayes Wharf Cartage Company Ltd. 1934 The
Hayes
Wharf Cartage Company is taken over by the Big Four railway companies. 1948 British Transport Commission is formed
on the nationalisation of the
railways. - Railway Executive - Hotels Executive - Docks & Inland Waterways Executive - Road Passenger Executive - Road Haulage Executive - 1948 The
British Transport Commission’s Road Haulage Executive included brands
such as
Pickfords, Wordie, Carter Paterson, and Hays Wharf Cartage. These later
formed
the basis of British Road Services. 1962 The British Transport Commission is
abolished.
- Railway Executive > British Railways
Board
- Hotels Executive > British Transport
Hotels
- Docks & Inland Waterways Executive is
split
- Docks > British
Transport Docks Board
- Inland Waterways
> British Waterways Board
- Road Passenger Executive > Transport
Holding Company
- Road Haulage Executive >
- 1964 The
BTC’s
Road Haulage Executive becomes British Road Services after the break of
up the
British Transport Commission. It had several divisions: British Road
Services Ltd, British Road Services Parcels (BRS Parcels Ltd),
Pickfords and Containerway & Roadferry Ltd. 1969 British
Road Services become the National Freight Corporation as a global
logistics
& moving services company. 1969 Freightliner
Ltd is transferred from British Rail to the National Freight
Corporation and
becomes their Freightliner Division. The Sundries Division of British
Rail is
also transferred to the National Freight Corporation to become their
National
Freight Carriers division. However British Rail retained their Red Star
Parcels local delivery service until privatisation in 1995, when it was
subject to a management buyout. In 1996 it was acquired by LYNX Express
Ltd. The NFC,
composed of
Freightliners Ltd, (which had been operating since 1965) and National
Carriers
Ltd (NCL), was to take over the total assets of BR's collection and
delivery
service, the subsidiary companies within the Transport Holding Company,
and
British Road Services Parcels (BRS Parcels). On 1st January 1969, NCL
Ltd and Freightliners Ltd joined the NFC
which by
1975 controlled approximately 60 companies, nearly 1,000 depots and
25,000
vehicles. 1971 A
nationalised asset
was also lost when the NFC sold the Atlantic Steam Navigation Company;
the BRB
was interested in acquiring the company, but the Government had other
ideas and
sold it to European Ferries. 1982 The
National Freight Corporation is privatised and subject to a management
buy out.
Its subsidiaries included: British Road Services, National
Carriers,
Roadline The NFC
had assets valued at
£100 million, with its principal subsidiaries being BRS Parcels,
National
Carriers,
Roadline UK, Pickfords Removals, Pickfords Travel and Tempco
International.
These companies employed 26,000 people, possessed 18,000 vehicles
operating
from 700 locations, and was Europe's largest single freight company; it
had
also won approximately 10 per cent of the 1989 The
National Freight Corporation is floated on the London Stock Exchange
and
becomes the NFC PLC. 1999 National
Freight Corporation PLC sells its NFC Moving Services Group (Allied Van
Lines,
Pickfords and Allied Pickfords) to North American Van Lines. It becomes
known
as Allied Worldwide and includes brands such as North American Van
Lines,
Allied Van Lines, Pickfords and Allied Pickfords. With its remaining
subsidiary
being Exel Logistics NFC PLC is renamed as Exel PLC. 2000 Exel
PLC
is formed by the merger of the National Freight Corporation PLC and the
Ocean
Group PLC. 2002 North
American Van Lines and its subsidiaries becomes part of the SIRVA
Group. This
includes brands such as Allied Pickfords, Pickfords, etc. 2005 Exel
PLC
is taken over by DHL (a subsidiary of Deutsche Post World Net) and now
operates
as DHL Exel Supply Chain. RAILWAY
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