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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on December 7, 2007
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Terry Gourvish. The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel

Terry Gourvish. The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. London: Routledge, 2006. xxi + 521 pp. ISBN 10: 0-415-39183-0, $93.95 (Cloth)

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Although constantly verging on financial collapse, the Channel Tunnel, which opened in 1994, has been seen by some as a remarkable testimony to human endeavor and engineering skills. Finance was largely from the private sector, construction was undertaken by the Trans-Manche Link Company under contract to Eurotunnel which operates the tunnel on a 99-year concession, levying tolls on the rail company, Eurostar, and road vehicles.

The idea of a tunnel dates back to the 1830s but the main study work started in the 1950s. There was a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Robert Millward

Professor Emeritus of Economic History, University of Manchester


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