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 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 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.

Colonial Consignment and Distributing Co

From Graces Guide

of 15, Dowgate Hill, E.C.

1895 The company was registered July 18, 1895, to acquire the English branch of the business of Nelson Brothers, Limited, meat warehousemen and salesmen, to extend the present facilities for the sale in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere of colonial produce, and to take over freezing stores, &c., necessary for the business.

1908 Directors: Sir E. M. Nelson, K.C.M.G. (Chairman and Managing Director), E. H. Byas, W. S. Davidson, E. T. Doxat, W. T. Holmes, F. Nelson, H. Nelson, Sir W. B. Perceval, K.C.M.G.,and M. C. Thomson. Secretary: P. B. Proctor.

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