 This example, of a successor local authority to a merged local government entity taking on that former entity's city status, was to be replicated in many instances as a result of the 1972/74 local government reforms across England and Wales (see below).With the establishment of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England in 1966, city grants were again in abeyance in England.Attempts by Derby, Teesside and Wolverhampton to become cities were not proceeded with.