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- Title Pages
- About the Author
- Frontispiece
- Acknowledgements
- Figure and Tables
- Introduction: The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892-1919
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Chapter 1 Furness' Shipping Services: Growth by Organic Means in the 1880s -
Chapter 2 The 1890s: Furness Withy's Expansion by Acquisition and Promotion -
Chapter 3 Diversification into the Industrial Sector, 1895-1901 -
Chapter 4 Trouble on the Transatlantic Route: The Formation of the IMM and Furness' Response -
Chapter 5 The Growth of Shipping Services, 1902-1909 -
Chapter 6 Industrial Operations and Performance, 1900-1914 -
Chapter 7 The Growth of the Shipping Interests, 1910-1919 -
Chapter 8 Structure -
Chapter 9 Finance -
Chapter 10 Holding Company Investment Activities and Intermediary Operations -
Chapter 11 Personnel -
Chapter 12 Furness -
Chapter 13 Dissolution -
Appendix 1 Deployment of the Combined Fleet, 1900-1919 -
Appendix 2a Patterns of Ownership: The Furness Group, 1919 -
Appendix 2b Reorganization of Branch Offices and Superintending Departments, 1911-1912 -
Appendix 3a Fluctuations in Freights, Profits, Tonnage Afloat and Merchant Shipping Output -
Appendix 3b Output of Merchant Tonnage (Excluding Warships), 1892-1913 -
Appendix 3c Fluctuations in the Price of a 7500-ton Cargo Steamer, 1898-1913 -
Appendix 4 Development of the Furness Group: Principal Promotions, Acquisitions and Divestments, 1880-1919 -
Appendix 5 Northern Allies and Maritime Associates -
Appendix 6: Contemporary Accounting Law and Conventions, 1845-1914 -
Appendix 7 Lord Furness' Movements, 1899-1912 - Bibliography
Introduction: The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892-1919
Introduction: The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892-1919
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- The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise
- Author(s):
Gordon Boyce
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- Liverpool University Press
DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9780986497391.003.0001
Christopher Furness, the seventh son of John Furness and Averill, daughter of John Wilson of Naisbet Hall, Durham, was born at West Hartlepool on 23 April 1852. John Furness had been born in Myton-on-Swale, Yorkshire, about 1808 and moved to West Hartlepool to work on the rail lines being built into the town during the 1840s....
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- Title Pages
- About the Author
- Frontispiece
- Acknowledgements
- Figure and Tables
- Introduction: The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-scale Business Enterprise: The Furness Interest, 1892-1919
-
Chapter 1 Furness' Shipping Services: Growth by Organic Means in the 1880s -
Chapter 2 The 1890s: Furness Withy's Expansion by Acquisition and Promotion -
Chapter 3 Diversification into the Industrial Sector, 1895-1901 -
Chapter 4 Trouble on the Transatlantic Route: The Formation of the IMM and Furness' Response -
Chapter 5 The Growth of Shipping Services, 1902-1909 -
Chapter 6 Industrial Operations and Performance, 1900-1914 -
Chapter 7 The Growth of the Shipping Interests, 1910-1919 -
Chapter 8 Structure -
Chapter 9 Finance -
Chapter 10 Holding Company Investment Activities and Intermediary Operations -
Chapter 11 Personnel -
Chapter 12 Furness -
Chapter 13 Dissolution -
Appendix 1 Deployment of the Combined Fleet, 1900-1919 -
Appendix 2a Patterns of Ownership: The Furness Group, 1919 -
Appendix 2b Reorganization of Branch Offices and Superintending Departments, 1911-1912 -
Appendix 3a Fluctuations in Freights, Profits, Tonnage Afloat and Merchant Shipping Output -
Appendix 3b Output of Merchant Tonnage (Excluding Warships), 1892-1913 -
Appendix 3c Fluctuations in the Price of a 7500-ton Cargo Steamer, 1898-1913 -
Appendix 4 Development of the Furness Group: Principal Promotions, Acquisitions and Divestments, 1880-1919 -
Appendix 5 Northern Allies and Maritime Associates -
Appendix 6: Contemporary Accounting Law and Conventions, 1845-1914 -
Appendix 7 Lord Furness' Movements, 1899-1912 - Bibliography
