Failings and achievements: Some british businesses, 1910–80

Business History

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 1-17

  Coleman, D C ^a  

^a PEMBROKE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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References (136)

1. In alphabetical order of enterprises, the works used were: W.J. Reader, Bowater: A History (Cambridge, 1981);
2. T.R. Gourvish, British Railways 1948-73: A Business History (Cambridge, 1986):
3. P.L. Payne, Colvilles and the Scottish Steel Industry (Oxford, 1979);
4. D.C. Coleman, Courtaulds. An Economic and Social History (Oxford, Vols.1 and 2, 1969; Vol.3, 1980);
5. L. Hannah, Electricity before Nationalisation (London, 1979)
6. and Engineers, Managers and Politicians (London, 1982);
7. M. Moss and J.R. Hume, Shipbuilders to the World: 125 years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1861–1986 (Belfast, 1986);
8. W.J. Reader, Imperial Chemical Industries: A History (London, Vol.1, 1970; Vol.2, 1975)
9. and A. Pettigrew, The Awakening Giant. Continuity and Change in ICI (Oxford, 1985);
10. R.A. Church, Kenricks in Hardware (Newton Abbot, 1969);
11. T.C. Barker, The Glassmakers: Pilkington, 1826–1976 (London, 1977);
12. C.H. Wilson, First with the News: A History of W.H. Smith 1792–1972 (London, 1985).
13. Church, Kenricks, pp. 144–6, 222–30.
14. Reader, Bowater, pp. 89–90, 173–4, 225, 288, 314–16, 341–3.
15. Wilson, W.H. Smith, pp. 263, 270, 319–20, 346–52.
16. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 66–7, 93, Ch.6
17. passim, 228–51.
18. Reader, ICI, Vol. 2, pp. 26-30, 131-6, 234–6, 461.
19. Pettigrew, Awakening Giant, pp. 120–33.
20. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol.2, pp. 53-7, 230–35, 348–9, 497–8.
21. Barker, Glassmakers, pp. 320–28.
22. Reader, Bowater, p.90.
23. Wilson, W.H. Smith, p.347.
24. Barker, Glassmakers, pp. 333–5.
25. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol.2, pp.234-5, 443–5.
26. The consequences were only too evident to new directors, appointed after the Second World War, who commented on second-rate mill managers and on an uncooperative attitude - Vol. 3, pp. 19–20, 295–7.
27. Hannah, Electricity, pp. 152-3;
28. Hannah, Engineers, pp. 95–107.
29. Reader, ICI, Vol. 2, pp. 70-72;
30. Pettigrew, Awakening Giant, pp. 320–34.
31. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 173–4, 234–5, 239.
32. Barker, Glassmakers, pp.260-63.
33. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol.2, pp. 152, 256, 322–3, 384–5, 490, 498-9;
34. on Johnson, pp.234-5, 420, 497-8.
35. Church, Kenricks, pp. 207-11, 252-3.
36. Reader, ICI, Vol. 2, p.463.
37. Gourvish, Railways, Ch.5 passim, also pp. 197, 495–6.
38. Hannah, Electricity, p. 327;
39. and Engineers, pp. 81–8.
40. Barker, Glassmakers, pp. 320–26.
41. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 2, pp. 232–4.
42. Ibid. Vol. 3, pp.28-35.
43. Wilson, W.H. Smith, pp. 319–29.
44. Reader, ICI, Vol. 2, pp. 234-46, 445, 461;
45. Pettigrew, Awakening Giant, pp. 387–91.
46. Church, Kenricks, pp.212, 275.
47. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 2, p.229.
48. Gourvish, Railyways, pp.87-9.
49. Hannah, Electricity, pp. 84-93;
50. Engineers, pp. 104–9.
51. Church, Kenricks, pp. 171-3, 205-7.
52. Moss & Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 304, 321, 375, 392–5.
53. Payne, Colvilles, p. 171.
54. Pettigrew, Awakening Giant, p.133.
55. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 3, Chs.8 and 9 passim.
56. Barker, Glassmakers, pp. 339-43;
57. Coleman, Courtaulds Vol. 2, pp. 226, 229-32;
58. Vol. 3, pp. 17-21;
59. D.C. Mowery, ‘Firm Structure, Government Policy and the Organization of Industrial Research: Great Britain and the United States, 1900-50’, Business History Review, Vol. 58, No. 4 (1984), pp. 504–31.
60. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 2, pp. 437–59.
61. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 168-72, 186, 410, 417-18, 452-60.
62. Gourvish, Railways, pp. 120-33, 214-48, 529-62.
63. Reader, Bowater, pp. 295-6;
64. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 3, pp. 289-91;
65. Hannah, Engineers, p. 137.
66. Church, Kenricks, pp. 252–5.
67. Reader, Bowater, pp. 266-7, 288-96, 308–11.
68. Hannah, Engineers, pp. 94-110, 139-48.
69. Gourvish, Railways, pp. 91-120, 173-213, 398.
70. Wilson, W.H. Smith, pp. 396–9.
71. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 261-3, 267, 290, 303-5, 313-18, 400, 458-60.
72. Barker, Glassmakers, pp.264-9;
73. Reader, Bowater, 250–53, 274, 322;
74. Reader, ICI Vol. 2, pp. 98-114, 162-81, 264–5.
75. Gourvish, Railways, p.569.
76. Ibid., pp. 244-8, 472-7, 481-6;
77. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 452-3, 468-70.
78. Hannah, Engineers, pp. 228–44, 285.
79. Wilson, W.H. Smith, pp.274, 450;
80. Church, Kenricks, pp. 134-7;
81. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 182–5.
82. Gourvish, Railways, pp. 4–5.
83. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol.3, p.24.
84. Ibid., Vol.2, pp.211-22.
85. Wilson, W.H. Smith, pp. 270, 316, 318 and passim.
86. Church, Kenricks, pp. 201–30.
87. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 313, 390-94.
88. Gourvish, Railways, pp. 576–81.
89. Reader, ICI, Vol.2, pp. 7, 425-6:
90. Pettigrew, Awakening Giant, pp. 121–55, 258–83, 376–91.
91. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol.2, p.28 and Chs. 1-6 passim.
92. Reader, Bowater, pp. 16-25,79, 154, 183-4.
93. Reader, ICI, Vol.2, pp.346-62;
94. Barker, Glassmakers, pp. 416–20 and ‘Business Implications of Technical Development in the Glass Industry, 1945-65: A Case-Study’ in B.E. Supple (ed.), Essays in British Business History (Oxford, 1977), pp. 187-204:
95. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 3, pp. 180–88.
96. Church, Kenricks, pp. 240-70.
97. Barker, Glassmakers, pp. 346–77.
98. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 3, pp. 112-16, 149-53, 156, 166-7, Ch.12 passim.
99. Wilson, W.H. Smith, pp.4, 21, Chs.18 and 19 passim.
100. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, p.227.
101. Ibid., p.207. For some other specimens of such dicta, see my ‘Historians and Businessmen’, in D.C. Coleman and P. Mathias (eds.), Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 28-9, 39.
102. Payne, Colvilles, p.357.
103. Reader, Bowater, pp. 224–8.
104. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 3, pp. 317–9 and passim.
105. Pettigrew, Awakening Giant, pp. 376-8, 393-436.
106. Reader, ICI, Vol. 1, pp. 452ff;
107. Vol. 2, pp. 7, 465, and passim.
108. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 265-6, 282, 297, 304, 311, 321, 391-2.
109. Hannah, Electricity, p.136 and Ch.4, passim.
110. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 2, passim;
111. Barker, Glassmakers, p.357.
112. Gourvish, Railways, pp. 120, 460-62, 549-65 and Ch.10 passim.
113. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 421–33.
114. Wilson, W.H. Smith, pp. 396–408.
115. Payne, Colvilles, pp. 250–52.
116. Hannah, Electricity, pp. 146-8, 161.
117. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 2, pp. 253-4, 336-42, 366-8;
118. Vol. 3, pp. 53-4.
119. Hannah, Engineers, pp. 193-207, 209, 216, 245-65.
120. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 2, pp. 61–119.
121. Pettigrew, Awakening Giant, pp. 176–99, 230–38 etc.;
122. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 400, 410, 416-19, 452-3, 478, 490.
123. Hannah, Engineers, pp. 195–8.
124. Payne, Colvilles, pp. 357–9.
125. Barker, Glassmakers, pp. 328–35.
126. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 3, pp. 295–300.
127. Gourvish, Railways, pp. 337–47.
128. Wilson, W.H. Smith, pp.416-19;
129. Gourvish, Railways, pp.379-81, 519-20, 527-9.
130. Barker, Glassmakers, pp. 420-22;
131. Moss and Hume, Harland & Wolff, pp. 434, 479-80, 491;
132. Pettigrew, Awakening Giant, pp. 376-424;
133. Coleman, Courtaulds, Vol. 3, pp. 246-7, 320-21.
134. Reader, Bowater, pp. 314–40.
135. Payne, Colvilles, p.246.
136. See L. Hannah (ed.), Management Strategy and Business Development (London, 1976), especially Ch.9, pp. 184–200.