Calling to Mind
Being Some Account of the First Hundred Years (1870 to 1970) of Steel Brothers and Company Limited
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1975
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Author: H. E. W. Braund
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 7 1 2 9 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 8 7 1 0 - 5
Calling to Mind is an account of the first 100 years (1870 to 1970) of Steel Brothers and Company Limited, featuring those who took part in the company as well as the company’s… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCalling to Mind is an account of the first 100 years (1870 to 1970) of Steel Brothers and Company Limited, featuring those who took part in the company as well as the company’s failures and successes. The first chapter describes the humble beginning of the company. Then, this book presents how the company shifted from concentrating on rice produce to venturing into forest and oil. How the company shipped their products is also discussed, featuring the seas and oceans that helped them navigate to success, as well as the countries that welcomed their products. This book will be very interesting to those planning to venture into a business and learn from a veteran company, as well as to economists, business managers and administrators, and students of business and economics.
List of Illustrations and Maps
Foreword
Introduction
Verse-"1870 to 1970"
Chapter I - The Century Makers
Chapter II - Rice
Chapter III - Forests and Timber
Chapter IV - Oil
Chapter V - Sea Lanes and Waterways
Chapter VI - The Indian Ocean
Chapter VII - The Middle East and the Mediterranean
Chapter VIII - Canada
Chapter IX - Australia
Chapter X - The United Kingdom
Epilogue
Appendix A - The Time Scale
Appendix Β - Steels' "Family Tree" at 1st November 1970
Appendix C - Shipping in the Port of Rangoon on 17th March 1886
Appendix D - Random extracts from Steel Brothers' Forest Department Standing Orders
Appendix Ε - Foreword to a Government Report by Geoffrey Walsh, Esq., Food Controller and Economic Adviser to the High Commissioner, Palestine
Appendix F - Facsimile of Letter Dated Rangoon, 20th September 1883 from Mr. (Later Sir) Robert McCracken to Mr. William Strang Steel in London
Appendix G - Facsimile of Pages 1 and 2 of Minutes of Meeting of Directors on 31st December 1890 (on which Date the Partnership of Steel Brothers & Company became the Registered Company of Steel Brothers & Company Limited)
Appendix Η - The City of London in 1917 (Condensed from the Recollections of Ian George Meldrum McGavin (1917-1966))
Appendix I - The Directors of Steel Brothers & Company Limited (since Incorporation of the Company in 1890)
Bibliography
Glossary of Asian Words
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1975
- Imprint: Pergamon
- No. of pages: 154
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483171296
- eBook ISBN: 9781483187105
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