Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,148 pages of information and 250,321 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.

South Western Steam Packet Co

From Graces Guide

1842 Share issue. 'PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. JAMES AIKEN, Esq. Liverpool. THOMAS COOKE, Esq., Manchester. W. J. CHAPLIN, Esq., 1, Adelphi Terrace, London. J. W. DREW, Esq., Southampton. JOHN HIBBERT. Esq., 47, Great Ormond-street, London. AMBROSE HUMPHRYS, Esq., 22, Upper Whimpole street, London, THOMAS SMITH, Esq., Liverpool....The projectors of the present undertaking having effected the purchase of seven Steam Packets, for sometime past employed between Southampton and Havre, the Channel Islands, and some of the Ports on the Southern Coast of England, and the good-will of their Trade, on very advantageous terms...Several of the London and South Western Railway Directors are on the Provisional Committee of the projected company. The most friendly disposition towards the intended Packet Company has also been secured at Havre, and with the Paris and Rouen Railway Company...'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Saturday 23 April 1842