Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

African Association

From Graces Guide

of Colonial House, Water Street, Liverpool

1889 The company, which was a fusion of nine Liverpool, Glasgow and Bristol firms and joint-stock companies engaged in trade in Southern Nigeria, was registered on 13 June, to carry on the business of merchants and shipowners, and has since purchased other businesses and extended its operations to other parts of West Africa.

1893 The whole of its business in the hinterland district under chartered administration was transferred to the Royal Niger Co. [1]

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908