General Manager and one of the Directors of the Metropolitan Railway Company,
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Robert H. Selbie
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Baker Street Station
This plaque is somewhat reticent about its function which is to commemorate t...
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Sir Thomas Lipton
A self-made man, company founder, merchant, philanthropist and yachtsman. Born as Thomas Johnstone Lipton in Glasgow to Irish parents who has a small provisions shop. He opened his own shop and th...
Person, Commerce, Food & Drink, Industry, Seriously Famous, Scotland
New River Company
See the New River for an explanation of why the New River Company came into being. Puzzled why the Company should have been so involved in rebuilding after war damage we found the explanation at A...
Henry Ford
American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-clas...
Person, Commerce, Industry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Transport
Palmer Tyre Company
From Car History: In June 1892 John F. Palmer (American) obtained two US patents for a “thread-fabric” bicycle pneumatic tire. Shortly afterwards he moved to England; registering the Palmer Tire Co...
Harry McGowan
Born Glasgow. Aged 15 he joined Nobel's Explosives Company and worked his way up to running it. Nobels became part of ICI of which he became Chairman and Managing Director in 1930, following on fro...