National Freight Corporation

British Road Services was a state-owned transport companies in the UK.

British Road Services was founded in 1948 as a result of the Transport Act 1947 as part of the nationalization of the UK transport industry. In the 1960s it was on the four business British Road Services Ltd. ( Road transport), BRS Parcels Ltd. ( Package services), Pickford ( transport and logistics) and Containerway & Ferry Road Ltd.. ( Ferry and container traffic ) split.

Renamed the National Freight Corporation in 1969, the company was sold in the course of operated by the government of Margaret Thatcher dismantling of state enterprises in 1982 to employees and continued as a National Freight Consortium. The company was among the first companies that were privatized by the Conservative government. As one of the UK's largest transport company, it was from 1989 listed on the London Stock Exchange and included as NFC plc the FTSE 100 Index.

BRS Parcels Ltd. has been renamed Road Line and was spun off in the way of a management buy -out under the name of LYNX Express in 1997. Pickfords went in 1999 to Allied Van Lines, the rest of the company merged in 2000 with the Ocean Group plc and formed henceforth the Exel plc.