- 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 Second World War
The Second World War
- Chapter:
- (p.255) Chapter 12The Second World War
- Source:
- The Trade Makers
- Author(s):
Peter N. Davies
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter discusses the effects of the Second World War on the British shipping industry. It provides an analysis of the loss of seamen and vessels in comparison to the previous world war, and describes the subsequent trading conditions of West Africa. It also presents the establishment of the West African Co-Ordination Committee, formed by Elder Dempster, John Holt and the United Africa Company and comments on their actions made on behalf of the Ministry of War Transport in 1940.
Keywords: West Africa, British West Africa, West African Trade, West African Shipping Trade, Liverpool Shipping, Elder Dempster, Second World War, West African Co-Ordination Committee, John Holt, United Africa Company
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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
