Abstract
In 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.
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