Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- 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 Development 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
About the Author
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- 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 Development 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
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- The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business EnterpriseThe Furness Interest, 1892-1919, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2012