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Copy of unsigned Company 'Memorandum regarding recent past and future prospects', 23 Feb 1920

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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 100, fols. 155-172
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Including:

  1. the development, mainly through the subsidiaries, of mining, tanning, nut-drying, kolas, and transport interests
  2. expansion in Lagos and its hinterland, and along the Eastern Railway
  3. labour and staff matters
  4. capital requirements to cope with expansion
  5. possibility of the Company entering finance business, to prevent large London banks from securing it
  6. 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

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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