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When Did Haulage Companies Become 'Logistics'?
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Just wondering. Anyone know the first UK company to start using the term?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.According to Wiki, which I don't always believe: "The Royal Corps of Transport (RCT) was a British Army Corps established to manage all matters in relation to the transport of men and material for the Army and the wider Defence community. It was formed in 1965 and disbanded in 1993; its units and trades were amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps."
The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and domestic materials such as clothing, furniture and stationery and the supply of technical and military equipment. In 1965 its functions were divided between other Corps (RCT and RAOC) and the RASC ceased to exist;
Governments do like to change the name of their departments. When I first started work in 1963 I joined an establishment which was part of the Ministry of Aviation, shortly before it had been Ministry of Supply. In the four years I worked there it changed to Ministry of Technology and then Ministry of Defence.
We seem to live in an era were something needs a new name, but the job is just the same. Then we have an obsession of fixing things that are not broken, or upgrading from something that has worked well, only to find that the upgrade has now presented big problems, but to save face, refuse to go back to what worked well, and struggle on with an expensive load of tosh. :0)
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