Gueret, Llewellyn and Merrett
From Graces Guide
Coal sales and export organisation
1874 T. J. Callaghan (1858- ) began his commercial career with Gueret which company later became Gueret, Llewellyn, Merrett Ltd., Coal Exporters & Shipbrokers. For many years he was Chairman of the Company.
1921 GKN entered an agreement with L. Gueret and Co., one of the largest coal distributing agencies in the world, for an exchange of shares and an interchange of directors.
1930 Amalgamated with several collieries into Welsh Associated Collieries
By 1934 the company had become associated with GKN; as a result T. J. Callaghan became a director of GKN.
1936 Welsh Associated Collieries were absorbed into the Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries.
By 1946 the company was a subsidiary of Powell Duffryn[1]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Aug 14, 1946
- T J Callaghan, Durham Mining Museum [1]