Theo Barker

Pilkington Glass in South Africa, 1882-1992

The Pilkington records at St Helens in north-west England contain a great deal about glass importation, processing and manufacture in South Africa between the 1880s, when J.R. and R.H. Pritchard, general commission agents at Cape Town, began to act for them, until March 1992 when they sold their 48 per cent interest in Glass South Africa (Pty) Ltd to Plate Glass and Shatterprufe Industries. Throughout most of this time the English company, which made plate and sheet (window) glass, but never bottles.

Enterprise and Management: Essays in Honour of Peter L. Payne.

Part 1 Enterprise and management: entrepreneurship in theory and history, Clive H. Lee entrepreneurs and business success and business failure in Scotland, Anthony Slaven the missing dimension - management education and training in postwar Britain, Derek H. Aldcroft. Part 2 Enterprise in banking and finance: banking entrepreneurship in North East Scotland, 1747-87, Charles W. Munn the City of Glasgow Bank and the crisis of 1857, Robert E. Tyson banking enterprise during the window of opportunity, 1958-61, Duncan M. Ross the London and Provincial Stock Exchanges, 1799-1973: separation, integration, rivalry, unity, Ronald C. Michie. Part 3 Enterprise in industry and trade: contrasting careers - the first managers of the British Linen Company, 1745-1800, Alastair J. Durie management style and business crises in the Aberdeen textile industry, 1825-1934, Richard Perren Lo, ...Ninevah and Tyre - British trading anxieties and official reactions, 1870-1929, Philip L. Cottrell.

Business History and the Business–Man

This article is addressed to business-men, who, preoccupied as they are with the present and the future, have little time to devote to the past. When a company celebrates its centenary—as a growing number of concerns will be doing from now onwards—its directors often find themselves at a loss to know what course of action to take about having a history written. To whom should they turn for advise? Most universities nowadays have members of their staff trained in economic history who could be of help, but few business-men get into touch with them. This article is an attempt to state the case for consulting the economic historian.