The General Motors tram conspiracy is the name given to the systematic destruction of local public transport based on trams in 45 cities in the United States under the leadership of General Motors Company, the largest US car manufacturer, from the 1930s to the 1960s.

The transport companies were bought up in order to achieve the closure of the tram lines in favour of automobile transport so that vehicles and operating materials from their own production could be sold.

By the time a Supreme Court ruling finally prohibited this practice of decommissioning rail networks in 1956, the number of trams in the United States had already fallen from 37,000 to 5,300. The fact that there was an organised network of automobile companies behind this did not become known to a wider public until 1974. Bradford Snell, a lawyer for the US government, wrote a report for the Anti-Monopoly Committee in the Senate based on the court files from 1956.

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