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Fares Increase (Explanatory Information)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Railways – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 August 1947.

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To ask the Minister of Transport if he will take steps, by means of advertising, broadcasts, or otherwise, to inform the public of the reasons for the increases in fares and so to forestall attempts by hostile propagandists to misrepresent them as a consequence of nationalisation.

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