Papers of ECITO (European Central Inland Transport Organisation)

The material has been arranged in seven files:

• File 1. Minutes 1944
• File 2. Progress reports, papers on the drafting of the European Inland Transport (EIT) agreement, including meetings of the UK, USA and USSR delegations, and of the Informal Group on Inland Waterways 1944.
• File 3. Papers relating to the Provisional Organisation/Executive of ECITO for the European Inland Transport and re the drafting of the agreement establishing ECITO 1945.
• File 4. British Delegation Papers including reports on the progress of the conference and on the drafting of the Agreement 1944.
• File 5. Tests of Draft Agreements for the ECITO plus reports on the informal meetings of the delegations 1944.
• File 6. ECITO Executive Board, minutes and papers 1945 - 1946.
• File 7. Allied Post-War Requirements Bureau: Technical Advisory Committee on Inland Transport 1943 - 1944.

Papers of the Conference on European Inland Transport (CEIT) set up in 1944 to restore the transport system of Continental Europe after Liberation. The Chairman was Labour Party minister Baron Philip Noel Baker (1889 - 1982). Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, the Netherlands, Norway, USSR, UK, USA and Yugoslavia sent delegations. The papers mainly relate to the negotiations leading to the agreement to set up the European Central Inland Transport Organisation.

The papers are listed by file.

OPEN

Sapsford, A

Printed handlist available.

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