History of May & Baker, 1834-1984
Details:
- Author(s) Slinn, Judy
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1984
- Pages 196pp; illus
- Publisher Hobsons Ltd
- Place Published Cambridge
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned narrative history. Heavily focused on the pre 1945 era. Covers origins as a partnership, conversion to limited liability, as a family firm, First World War, acquisition by Rhone Poulenc, manufacture of cyanide, development of highly important chemotherapeutic drugs, etc. List of directors and officials, 1890-1983, as an appendix