Stanton & Staveley. A business history
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- Author(s) Chapman, Stanley D
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 240pp; illus
- Publisher Woodhead Faulkner
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly commissioned history dealing with Stanton & Staveley and with its two constituents which merged in 1960, Stanton Ironworks Co Ltd and Staveley Coal & Iron Co Ltd. Charts the relative development of the two business which were keen competitors making similar products - 'examining such diverse issues as financial restraints, mergers and takeovers, industrial relations, all in the context of the central themes of leadership and policy formation'. Has chapters: 'Early struggles, 1783-1840'; 'The early railway age, 1840-65'; 'The Markhams of Staveley, 1864-1926'; 'The Cromptons of Stanton, 1855-1917'; 'The Fox era, 1917-40'; 'Community building'; 'The post war years'. Appendices give annual financial data for the Staveley Coal & Iron Co Ltd