| Description |
1 online resource (x, 402 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Research in maritime history ; no. 49 |
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Research in maritime history ; no. 49.
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| Contents |
Furness' Shipping Services: growth by organic means in the 1880s -- The 1890s: Furness Withy's expansion by acquisition and promotion -- Diversification into the industrial sector, 1895-1901 -- Trouble on the transatlantic route: the formation of the IMM and Furness' response -- The growth of shipping services, 1902-1909 -- Industrial operations and performance, 1900-1914 -- The growth of the shipping interests, 1910-1919 -- Structury -- Finance -- Holding company investment activities and intermediary operations -- Personnel -- Furness -- Dissolution -- Appendix 1: Development of the combined fleet, 1900-1919 -- Appendix 2a: Patterns of ownership: the Furness Group, 1919 -- Appendix 2b: Reorganization of branch offices and superintending departments, 1911-1912 -- Appendix 3a: Fluctuations in freights, profits, tonnage afloat and merchant shipping output -- Appendix 3b: Output of merchant tonnage (excluding warships) 1892-1913 -- Appendix 3c: Flucuations in the price of a 7500-ton cargo steamer, 1898-1913 -- Appendix 4: Development of the Furness Group: principal promotions, acquisitions and divestments, 1880-1919 -- Appendix 5: Northern allies and maritime associates -- Appendix 6: Contemporary accounting law and conventions, 1845-1914 -- Appendix 7: Lord Furness' movements, 1899-1912 |
| Summary |
This book is an in-depth case study of the Furness Withy and Co. Shipping Group, which operated both tramp and liner services and was one of the five major British shipping groups of the early twentieth century |
| Notes |
Substantial Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D)--London School of Economics and Political Science, 1984 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 24, 2018) |
| Subject |
Furness, Withy & Company -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Furness, Withy & Company fast |
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Shipping companies (Marine transportation) -- Great Britain -- History
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Shipping -- Great Britain -- History
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Corporations -- Great Britain -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Corporations
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Shipping
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Shipping companies (Marine transportation)
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Maritime Economic History Association, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
9781786948861 |
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1786948869 |
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