Papers accumulated by the Humber Conservancy Board in connection with the passage of the Bill through Parliament during the 1947 Session: a bill to provide for the establishment of a British Transport Commission concerned with transport and other related matters, to specify their powers and duties, to provide for the transfer to them of undertakings, property, rights, obligations and liabilities, to amend the law relating to Transport, inland waterways, harbours, and port facilities, to make certain consequential provision as to income tax, to make provision as to pensions and gratuities in the case of certain persons who become officers of the Minister for Transport, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

The seriesconsists of circulars and memoranda from the General Council of British Shipping and the Dock and Harbour Authorities' Association.