Transport Holding Company

Transport Holding Company
Company typeStatutory corporation
PredecessorBritish Transport Commission
Founded1 September 1962 (1962-09-01)
Defunct31 March 1973 (1973-03-31)
FateDissolved
SuccessorNational Freight Corporation

The Transport Holding Company (THC) was a British Government–owned company created by the Transport Act 1962 to administer a range of state-owned transport, travel and engineering companies that were previously managed by the British Transport Commission (BTC). It came into existence on 1 September 1962, with certain assets of the BTC vested in it on 1 January 1963.