Cleaver Hume Press Ltd

Sectors:

  • Distribution - retailing Books & other publications retailing
  • Publishing & printing Other printing
  • Publishing & printing Other publishing
  • Professional services Training & other education services

Notes:

Established in early 1920s as a technical correspondence school by J J Cleaver and H Hume who had formerly worked for Technological Institute of Great Britain, organisers of correspondence courses for technical education. Known as British Institute of Engineering Technology Ltd and based in central London. Shortly afterwards formed British Tutorial Institutes Ltd to teach commercial and general education. During and after war provided educational services to serving and recently demobbed servicemen. Late 1940s operations combined in Cleaver Hume Press Ltd as a public company. 1946 started publishing and book retailing.1949 acquired TIGB. Also printers and paper merchants via Metropolitan Paper Works, Bow. 1950s relocated to Kensington

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