Two Irish CIE Train Uniform Buttons "Flying Snail"c1950

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Two Irish CIE Train Uniform Buttons "Flying Snail"c1950 Two three part convex brass uniform buttons - made in Birmingham. One solid brass and the other silvered on brass. The so-called flying snail (which, incidentally, had left and right side versions) was current from the beginning of the CIE epoch (dating from four years earlier in 1941 when the Dublin United Transport Company Ltd. adopted the device with the wording Iomchar Atha Cliath - Dublin Transport - on the middle bar) to 1964, after which it was replaced by the wheeled logo. In 1987 new logos were adopted. Coras Iompar Eireann (Ireland's Carrier Company). C.I.E was established by the Transport Act of 1944, the result of a merger of the Great Southern railway and the Dublin United Tramway Company. CI.E also absorbed many of the smaller bus companies, a process that eventually led to state monopoly. It inherited a rail system dogged by soaring coal prices and wage demands, old stock, unprofitable lines, and a dwindling number of customers due to competition from road transport. The Government stipulated that C.I.E become self-financing and at the same time perform the social service of keeping open non-commercial routes. Under the Transport Act of 1950, C.I.E absorbed the Grand and Royal canal companies. In 1953, the government approved a programme of railway modernization, read more
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