Story of De Beers; with some notes on the company's financial, farming, railway and industrial activities and some introductory chapters on the river diggings and early Kimberley

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Author(s) Chilvers, Hedley
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1939
Pages 344pp; illus
Publisher Cassell
Place Published London

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Written by an author specialising in Africa subjects. Commissioned by the firm? Mostly about mining in South Africa; little on London-based trading operations. Provides a year by year chronology of events in the firm's history [pp261-305]. List of past and present directors. Schedule of dividend payments, 1889-1937. Schedule of employees killed/wounded 1914-18