Dr Martin Wilcox M.Wilcox@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in History
Railways, roads and the British white fish industry, 1920-70
Wilcox, Martin
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Abstract
It is well known that the railways facilitated the development of the British fishing industry in the nineteenth century. Using sources only recently made available for research, this article explores the relationship between the fish trade and railways in the twentieth century. It concludes that the eventual withdrawal of British Railways from fish traffic was occasioned by the fact supply chains for many foodstuffs were revolutionised in the post-war period by the rise of large-scale processing industries and then multiple retailers, which mainly used road distribution. It was also, however, a product of the fish trades' fragmentation and divisions, and of failures of negotiation on both sides. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
Citation
Wilcox, M. (2012). Railways, roads and the British white fish industry, 1920-70. Business history, 54(5), 741-764. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2011.631128
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 16, 2011 |
Publication Date | Mar 26, 2012 |
Deposit Date | Jun 8, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 3, 2023 |
Journal | Business History |
Print ISSN | 0007-6791 |
Electronic ISSN | 1743-7938 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 54 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 741-764 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2011.631128 |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3634857 |
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