London Passenger Transport Act 1933

The London Passenger Transport Act 1933 (1933 c.14) was an act of parliament that brought the various underground railway, tram and omnibus operators providing public transport to the capital under public ownership for the first time.

The Act established the London Passenger Transport Board as "a public authority... consisting of a chairman and six other members..." who were to be "persons who have had wide experience, and have shown capacity, in transport, industrial, commercial or financial matters or in the conduct of public affairs and, in the case of two members, shall be persons who have had not less than six years experience in local government".

The Act also defined a new London Passenger Transport Area within which the board were to "secure the provision of an adequate and properly coordinated system of passenger transport... and for that purpose, while avoiding the provision of unnecessary and wasteful competitive services, to take from time to time such steps as they consider necessary for extending and improving the facilities for passenger transport in that area in such manner as to provide most efficiently and conveniently for the needs thereof."

The Act provided for the transfer of a number of named transport undertakings to the Board, which was to operate them as a single undertaking.