Authentic Vintage Luggage Label ~ CHARING CROSS HOTEL ~ British Transport Hotels

Description

Great authentic vintage luggage label:
CHARING CROSS HOTEL, STRAND WC2
British Transport Hotels
London, England
Measurements:
3" x 6
1/4
" (7.62 cm x 15.88 cm).  This hotel label is one of a series issued for the British Transport Railway hotels .  Fairly scarce from my research.  Overall condition is very good.
Britain's private railway companies pioneered the concept of the railway hotel, initially at locations such as London Euston and Birmingham Curzon Street where hotels were opened at the start of trunk railway operation in 1839. Most of the railway companies followed suit, and by 1913 there were 93 railway owned hotels. The policies of the 'big four' railway companies differed considerably, with the LMS and LNER railways being the most enthusiastic.
The Hotels Executive (1948–53)
At the nationalisation of transport in Great Britain on 1 January 1948, and the establishment of the British Transport Commission, hotels and catering came under the control of BTC's Railway Executive. However, on 1 July 1948 they were separated from direct railway control and placed under British Transport Commission's Hotels Executive, chaired by Lord Inman, who was later succeeded by Sir Harry Methven. At this point the Hotels Executive acquired 55 hotels and 400 station refreshment rooms, along with various golf courses, tennis courts, laundries, wine cellars, bottling stores and even a farm (at St Ives in Cornwall).
(from Wikipedia)
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