Copy of unsigned Company 'Memorandum regarding recent past and future prospects', 23 Feb 1920
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 100, fols. 155-172
Held at the Weston Library
Including:
- the development, mainly through the subsidiaries, of mining, tanning, nut-drying, kolas, and transport interests
- expansion in Lagos and its hinterland, and along the Eastern Railway
- labour and staff matters
- capital requirements to cope with expansion
- possibility of the Company entering finance business, to prevent large London banks from securing it
- threats to the transport service from English and American competition.
Annexed is the Mining Department (Laws, Rumbold) Annual Report for 1918 [bound as fols. 136-149].
[This memorandum is based on the letter from Trigge to Scarbrough of 7 Oct 1919, MSS. Afr. s. 86, fols. 234-93a.]
Dates
- Creation: 23 Feb 1920
Extent
18 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Afr. s. 100, fols. 155-172
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