- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Author's Introduction to the Second Edition
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the Original Edition
-
Chapter 1 Macgregor Laird -
Chapter 2 Alexander Elder and John Dempster -
Chapter 3 Alfred Lewis Jones -
Chapter 4 The West African Shipping Conference -
Chapter 5 Expansion and Diversification -
Chapter 6 The Effects of the Conference System -
Chapter 7 Lord Kylsant -
Chapter 8 The Great War -
Chapter 9 Reconstruction and Change -
Chapter 10 The End of the Royal Mail Group -
Chapter 11 The Reorganisation of the Company -
Chapter 12 The Second World War -
Chapter 13 Post-War Reconstruction -
Chapter 14 Recent Developments -
Chapter 15 The Future -
Chapter 16 A False Dawn and Terminal Decline - List of Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
The Reorganisation of the Company
The Reorganisation of the Company
- Chapter:
- (p.229) Chapter 11 The Reorganisation of the Company
- Source:
- The Trade Makers
- Author(s):
Peter N. Davies
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter documents the establishment of Elder Dempster Lines Limited, a company under the control of Richard Holt, and follows the fluctuations in West African imports and exports in the 1930s. It examines the successes and failures of Elder Dempster in this period by assessing shipping tonnage and financial results, and comparing the data to the growth of rival lines. The chapter concludes with an introduction of Elder Dempster’s entry into commercial aviation as Elders Colonial Airways Limited, a venture that came to an end in the 1940s due to the outbreak of the Second World War.
Keywords: West Africa, British West Africa, West African Trade, West African Shipping Trade, Liverpool Shipping, Elder Dempster, Elders Colonial Airways Limited, Richard Holt
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- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Author's Introduction to the Second Edition
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the Original Edition
-
Chapter 1 Macgregor Laird -
Chapter 2 Alexander Elder and John Dempster -
Chapter 3 Alfred Lewis Jones -
Chapter 4 The West African Shipping Conference -
Chapter 5 Expansion and Diversification -
Chapter 6 The Effects of the Conference System -
Chapter 7 Lord Kylsant -
Chapter 8 The Great War -
Chapter 9 Reconstruction and Change -
Chapter 10 The End of the Royal Mail Group -
Chapter 11 The Reorganisation of the Company -
Chapter 12 The Second World War -
Chapter 13 Post-War Reconstruction -
Chapter 14 Recent Developments -
Chapter 15 The Future -
Chapter 16 A False Dawn and Terminal Decline - List of Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
