Channel Tunnel Co
of 84 Tooley Street, London
1868 A committee was formed to promote the idea of a Channel Tunnel; discussions and experiments continued for 4 years.
1872 The Channel Tunnel Co was incorporated. John Hawkshaw and James Brunlees were the engineers of the company.
1881 A Submarine Continental Railway Co was registered.
1886 The Submarine Continental Railway Company acquired the "rights and properties" of the Channel Tunnel Company, the name of that company being assumed in 1887. [1]
1930 The company had agreed with a group of 6 contractors to fund putting a bill through Parliament and obtaining necessary geological information, and who would then build the British half of the pilot tunnel[2]
Also see Channel Tunnel