Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,677 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.
of London.
1969 Ocean Steamship Co, British and Commonwealth Holdings, Furness, Withy and P&O formed Overseas Containers Limited to exploit the introduction of containerization.
1974 Their offices at Beagle House, Aldgate was London's first purpose built office block using the "Integrated Environment Design (IED)".[1]
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