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Description: | Master typescript copy, with handwritten annotations and amendments of a history of the company written by David Scott Moncrieff. Internal evidence suggests that it was composed as part of the firm's centenary celebrations in 1954 and was intended to be published as a book.
The text is divided into ten chapters covering the history of the business from its beginnings in the 1850s to just after the Second World War, through its expansion both in Bilston and at Wellington, Shropshire, and overseas. It contains several anecdotes and stories about business practice in the nineteenth century and about the personalities of Joseph Sankey and his children, and other employees working for the firm. It also focuses on personnel and business decisions made during the twentieth century, and the firm's diversification into different areas of production. There is a chapter on the development and expansion of each of the firm's Works. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | c1954 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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