Horace George Thornton
Horace Thornton (1859-1924)
21 November 1902 Thornton writes to the Financial Times as secretary of the Fischer Motor Vehicle Syndicate, of 9 Charing Cross Road.[1] The syndicate is an offshoot of the American-owned Fischer Motor Vehicle Co, of Hoboken, New Jersey, which has a contract to supply petrol-electric hybrid buses to the London General Omnibus Company.
By 1907 Horace (George) Thornton becomes associated with a number of companies controlled by Edward Lehwess.
24 October 1907 Thornton becomes a director of Improved Electric Traction Co.[2]
February to March 1908 Thornton writes to several local councils urging them to run electrobuses.[3]
8 June 1909 Thornton is listed as a director of the International Motor Traffic Syndicate.[4]
1910 Thornton is listed as a director of the Electric Vehicle Co.[5]
28 January 1911 Thornton becomes director of the Asia Caoutchouc Trust, a company promoted by the Commercial and Financial Agency and in turn controlled by Edward Lehwess.[6]
27 March 1914 Horace George Thornton, a company director, is remanded in custody at Marlborough Street magistrates, charged with fraud. The charges include failing to pay for ladies underclothing worth £15 4s and the theft of a Burberry overcoat.[7] He was later convicted and sentenced to nine months in Wormwood Scrubs.[8]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Financial Times, 22 November 1902
- ↑ Improved Electric Traction, National Archives, BT 31/11428/87822
- ↑ Mick Hamer, A Most Deliberate Swindle, RedDoor, 2017, p. 281
- ↑ International Motor Traffic Syndicate, National Archives, BT 31/12112/94860
- ↑ Garke’s Manual of Electrical Undertakings, 1911, p. 1185
- ↑ Asia Caoutchouc Trust, National Archives, BT 31/13508/113908
- ↑ The Standard, 30 March 1914
- ↑ Calendar of Prisoners, National Archives, HO 140/304