Beardmore. The history of a Scottish industrial giant
Details:
- Author(s) Hume, John R, & Michael Moss
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1979
- Pages 364pp; illus
- Publisher Heinemann Educational Books
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Industrial rationalisation
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
- Name Government procurement
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly narrative and analytical account of the business from its origins in the 1830s to its nationalisation and final demise in the ownership of Firth Brown in the 1970s, but focusing especially on the years from c1900-50. Extensive appendices list contracts, 1900-30; analyse balance sheet and profit and loss account, 1901-75; and provide a chronology of events, 1836-1975