Claim: The Cotton Board, the organization tasked to supervise the organization, research and marketing of the cotton textile industry which received support from its industry, aided the reorganization of the industry in the 1950s but such reorganization was unsuccessful.
Evidence: It existed from 1940, and as a statutory Industrial Development Board from 1948 to 1972, known in its last years as the Textile Council. It was dissolved in 1971-2, at its own request, as it was felt the work would be better handled by a new voluntary British Textile Council.