Metal Box. A history
Details:
- Author(s) Reader, William J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1976
- Pages 256pp; illus
- Publisher Heinemann
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
- Name Multinational cos exc free standing & general trading cos
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned history with much about the early tin box production industry. The chapters include: 'Expanding market in late Victorian England'; 'The ancestors - Victorian tin box makers'; 'Tin box and canister trade before 1914'; 'Coming together, 1914-29 - the formation of Metal Box & Printing Industries Ltd'; 'The American invasion'; 'Metal Box - Barlow's revolution'; 'Metal Box at home, 1930-39'; 'Overseas foundations, 1930-39'; 'Wartime'; 'Post war market at home'; 'The American connection after 1945'; 'Life at court - problems of management, 1943-54'; 'Metal Box at home ... 1945-70'; 'The long boom - world markets, 1945-70'; 'Overseas expansion, 1945-70'; 'Metal Box examined - the Monopolies Commission and the business in 1970', Appendices include 'Metal Box statistics, 1921-74' [pp233-41] - turnover, capital employed, profit, sales, employees, etc. Touches on, inter alia, Barclay & Fry Ltd; Continental Can Co of USA; Hudson, Scott & Sons Ltd; G H Williamson & Sons Ltd; canning industry