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Other Business Names:

East India Co
West India Dock Co
West & East India Docks Co

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

Poplar, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England

Sectors:

Transport services Port & harbour services

Notes:

Established 1803 by Act of Parliament promoted by the East India Co. Built at Blackwall. 1838 merged with West India Dock Co to form the West & East India Docks Co which built Tilbury Docks in 1880s

Publications:

'Early nineteenth century Port of London. Management and labour in three dock companies, 1800-1825' in S P Ville & D M Williams (eds), Management, Finance and Industrial Relations in the Maritime Industries. Essays in international maritime and business history by Henderson, Anthony, & Sarah R Palmer
East India Dock Company, 1803-1838 by Pattison, G W
'East India Docks' in S Porter (ed), Survey of London. Volumes 43-4. Poplar, Blackwall and the Isle of Dogs by Porter, Stephen
Shipping and the East India Docks, 1802-38 by Pattison, G W

East India Dock Co

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