A History of the Burmah Oil Company (Vol 2)

Corley, T. A. B

Business & Money

Heinemann Educational Books

<p>This is the fascinating story of Britain's oldest oil enterprise, the Burmah Oil Company, covering the years when oil was beginning to emerge as one of the most sought after and valuable resources in the world. Although the company played a not inconsiderable part in making Britain a world oil power, few aware of its intriguing history. Now, in this most readable account, the full story for the period 1886-1824 is revealed. The author describes the original directors' Scottish tenacity that built up the company from modest beginnings to a highly profitable concern and made it by far the largest seller of kerosene in India as well as a substantial petrol and naval fuel oil supplier; the parleying with British ministers and officials once the company was recognised as the only large oil producer in the British Empire; the pressure from Whitehall to take up the financial and technical challenge of proving W. K. D'Arcy's oil concessions in Persia,; the endless frustrations before the eventual discovery of oil there, and the steps the company had to take to establish the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, now British Petroleum; the problems of communication with agents thousands of miles away; and the constant undercurrent of rivalry with the 'giants': Standard Oil, Royal Dutch and Shell, as they battled over what was then the largest market for oil products outside Europe and North America, the subcontinent of India.\nThe book significantly enhances our knowledge of Britain's early oil industry, and contributes some intriguing footnotes to the country's political history for the first quarter of our century.</p>

A history of the Burmah Oil Company

William Heinemann, Ltd.

The Beecham enterprise began when Thomas Beecham (1820-1865), an Oxfordshire shepherd with a reputation for efficacious herbal cures, moved to Lancashire to start his medicinal pill business. Anthony Corley tells the story of the Beechams, from the successful career of this 'Smilesian hero' and his Patent Pills in 1848 to a major company at the heart of the British pharmaceutical industry, now part of GlaxoSmithKline, over 150 years later.

Beechams, 1848-2000: from pills to pharmaceuticals

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Engineering

Crucible Books

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