Secretary of State for Transport

The Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport. The role has had a high turnover as new appointments are blamed for the failures of decades of their predecessors. The office used to be called the Minister of Transport, and has been merged with the Department for the Environment at various times.

Minister of Civil Aviation

The Ministry of Civil Aviation was created by Winston Churchill in 1944 to look at peaceful ways of using aircraft and to find something for the aircraft factories to do after the war. The new Conservative Government in 1951 appointed the same Minister to Transport and Civil Aviation, finally amalgamating the Ministries on October 1, 1953.

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Winston Churchill - 1944 - Aircraft - 1951 - October 1 - 1953

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• Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton (October 8, 1944 - July 26, 1945)
• Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster (August 4, 1945 - October 4, 1946)
• Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (October 4, 1946 - May 31, 1948)
• Francis Aungier Pakenham, 1st Baron Pakenham (May 31, 1948 - June 1, 1951)
• David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore (June 1, 1951 - October 26, 1951)
• John Maclay (October 31, 1951 - May 7, 1952)
• Alan Lennox-Boyd (May 7, 1952 - October 1, 1953)