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Author:   James Nye (Visiting Fellow, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Contemporary British History, King's College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.956kg
ISBN:  

9780198717256

ISBN 10:   0198717253
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   02 October 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: 1851-1899 Elephant and Castle to the Strand 2: 1899-1913 A new business emerges 3: 1914-1928 Flotation, war, boom and bust, recovery 4: 1929 - 1939 A decade of diversification 5: 1939 - 1945 The war factory 6: 1945 - 1959 From austerity to prosperity 7: 1960-1975 The triumph of decentralization 8: 1976-1990 Shocking the markets 9: 1991-2000 The end of an era 10: 2000-2007 Shocking the markets again 11: A fortune in change

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Conglomerates are deeply unfashionable and if one were assembling a manufacturing business from scratch, it would not resemble Smiths Group. Yet a fascinating new history of the GBP4.6 billion FTSE 100 engineer, which has divisions spanning healthcare, energy, airport detection, telecoms and components, makes a reasonably good case for the business staying as it is. James Nye argues that the conglomerate nature of the company has come to its aid over the years. Ian King, The Times

Dr James Nye has written a quite remarkable history of Smiths Industries (now Smiths Group), the last British manufacture, that eventually diversified into everything from autopilots to airport body scanners. * The Watch Nerd * Conglomerates are deeply unfashionable and if one were assembling a manufacturing business from scratch, it would not resemble Smiths Group. Yet a fascinating new history of the GBP4.6 billion FTSE 100 engineer, which has divisions spanning healthcare, energy, airport detection, telecoms and components, makes a reasonably good case for the business staying as it is. James Nye argues that the conglomerate nature of the company has come to its aid over the years. * Ian King, The Times * For historians of British business and economic history the author offers a masterly account of the transformation of a family firm into a professionally-run managerial multinational enterprise.It is a tour de force * Alun Davies, Antiquarian Horology *

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James Nye's first career was in finance and commerce, followed by a PhD in financial history at King's College London, where he holds a visiting fellowship in the Institute of Contemporary British History. He is also an award-winning historian of technology, with a focus on the history of distributed accurate time. James sits on the council of the AHS, and the editorial advisory panel of Antiquarian Horology. He is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, and was the founder and principal sponsor of The Clockworks, a unique London museum, workshop, and library dedicated to the history of electrical timekeeping (www.theclockworks.org).

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