Sir Eric Geddes. Business and government in war and peace
Details:
- Author(s) Grieves, Keith
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1989
- Pages 188pp
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Government & business general studies
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Biography of Geddes dealing with his career in government and business. Largely chronological. Covers his early career especially with the North Eastern Railway Co; at Ministry of Munitions, 1915-16; dealing with railways in France, 1916-17; at the Admiralty, 1917-18, and organisational change; reconstruction, decontrol, etc, 1918-22; at Dunlop as chairman, 1922-37; at Imperial Airways as chairman, 1924-37; at Lancashire Cotton Corp Ltd, 1931-32, as consultant. Sheds light on relations of business and government between the wars