page_title: Grand Union Canal Carrying Company
section_title: Formation of the company
hierarchical_section_title: Grand Union Canal Carrying Company / Formation of the company
caption_attribution_description: Narrowboat signwriting
context_page_description: The Grand Union Canal Carrying Company was a freight carrying transport service in England from 1934 to 1948.
context_section_description: The new company bought Associated Canal Carriers Ltd. and started the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company Ltd in 1934. The boats were marked with GUCCC as an abbreviation for the company name.
  The company secured new traffic in the 1930s and ordered new boats from W.J. Yarwood & Sons of Northwich, Harland and Wolff at Woolwich and W.H. Walker and Brothers of Rickmansworth.  Eventually the company acquired around 186 pairs of boats of a new improved design. The boats acquired the nicknames Woolwichs, Northwichs and Rickys.
caption: A reproduction of the livery carried by GUCCC boats from 1937 until the outbreak of World War II. This is Bicester, built by Harland and Wolff. Until the 1980s it was regularly used to carry cargo including wheat, lime juice and retail coal. The boat is now converted as a cruiser with a full-length cabin.
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