Industrialist's Journey. Memoirs of a Northern business man
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- Author(s) Beswick, Wilfred
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1961
- Pages 126pp; illus
- Publisher Dobson & Co
- Place Published Harrogate
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Autobiography of Wilfred Beswick, b1873, long term employee and sometime company secretary and later long serving chairman of Power Gas Corp Ltd and Ashmore Benson Pease & Co Ltd. Includes much about his business career, these two businesses and the Mond family. Early on he was a sort of private secretary to Dr Ludwig Mond who in 1901 launched the Power Gas Corp Ltd to market the byproduct power gas and to manufacture plant to produce it [via Ashmore, Benson, Pease & Co Ltd]