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 164,290 pages of information and 246,083 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.

Odeon Theatres

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See also Odeon Cinemas

1930 Oscar Deutsch was chairman of Odeon Theatres.

1937 Odeon Theatres Limited became a public company

1939 J. Arthur Rank joined the board of Odeon Theatres Ltd[1]

1947 the new name J. Arthur Rank Organisation was used to describe the organisation which included Odeon Theatres Ltd, Gaumont British Picture Corporation and many subsidiary and associated companies[2]

1955 Company name changed from Odeon Theatre Limited to Rank Organisation Ltd[3] which included Odeon Associated Theatres Ltd and Odeon Properties Ltd


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times 7 January 1939
  2. The Times 25 March, 1947
  3. The Times, 10 October 1955