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NHO Transport

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ5440864 ↗
Source-derived summary

NHO Transport, formerly the Federation of Norwegian Transport Companies (Norwegian: Transportbedriftenes Landsforening, TL) is an employers' organisation in Norway, organized under the national Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise. It is also a member of the International Association of Public Transport and the International Road Transport Union.

It was established in 1929 under the name Norges Rutebileieres Forbund. On 1 February 2011, the name was changed to NHO Transport.

The current Director General is Christian Aubert. Chairman of the board is Harald Vålandsmyr.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “NHO Transport” as organization. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Transport and organization.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Transport and organization providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “NHO Transport”, the useful work is to connect “organization” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 29, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5440864. VIAF identifies the subject as 300224808. The Library of Congress control number is no2013044841. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929 and 2011.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “NHO Transport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow NHO Transport primary sources, NHO Transport archive and Transport research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “NHO Transport”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “NHO Transport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.