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 167,611 pages of information and 247,064 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.

Gray, Dawes and Co

From Graces Guide

Advert for steamers from the Clyde to the Cape of Good Hope. [1]

1890 Edwyn Sandys Dawes, head of Gray Dawes & Co of London, rescued New Zealand Shipping Co when it had financial problems; financial control of the business moved to London.

Headed by Lord Inchcape

1919 Acquired Strick Line.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Wednesday, Oct 16, 1867