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	British Rail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the 'Big Four' British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997.
		British Railways came into existence on 1 January 1948 with the merger of the Big Four as the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission (BTC).
		Also during this time, yellow warning panels, characteristic of British railways, were added to the front of diesel and electric locomotives and multiple units in order to increase the safety of track workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Rail (2555 words)

	British shipping companies (C)
		The flag shown is a yellow fimbriated red cross on a dark blue field, with a Tudor crown in the canton, and C and W in yellow in the lower fly.
		The company was formed in 1973 by the merger of the Caledonian Steam Packet Co. Ltd.
		The original flag of the new company combined the two by moving the saltires towards the fly and placing the yellow disc with the lion in the hoist.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb~hfca.html (2145 words)

	The British Companies Making A Fortune Out Of Iraq By Robert Verkaik
		British company involvement at the top of Iraq's new political and economic structures means Iraq will be forced to rely on British business for many years to come.
		A total of 61 British companies are identified as benefiting from at least £1.1bn of contracts and investment in the new Iraq.
		The biggest British player, Aegis - run by Tim Spicer, the former British army lieutenant colonel who founded the security company Sandline - has a workforce the size of a military division and may rank as the largest corporate military group ever assembled, according to the report.
	www.countercurrents.org /iraq-verkaik130306.htm (1648 words)

	British shipping companies (B) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		British India Steam Navigation Co. The fleet commodore used this flag with the addition of a red ball in the white hoist area.
		British Tanker Co. The original flag was red with a horizontal white band expanded at the centre in the form of a circle, the band bearing the fl letters "BTC", the "T" being larger.
		The company returned to using the pre-1958 colours of a red funnel with a fl top and white, green, and white bands and without the BP Shield, reflecting the colours of the national flag of Iran (Persia).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb~hfbr.html (3030 words)

	British shipping companies (U, V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The company used a swallowtailed version for its fleet commodore although the actual design is uncertain with two reports from the same source differing as to whether the tail took all of the fly or was inset as a piece out of the blue fly section only leaving the saltire ends undisturbed.
		The company ceased operations in 1977 although the name was revived briefly in 1999 as an advertising gimmick by PandO.
		Hector Whaling was formed in the early 1930s as a British holding company and was associated with the Norwegian company of N. Bugge and a version of that company's livery was adopted.
	flagspot.net /flags/gb~hfuv.html (2309 words)

	Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
		British merchants were clearly in the vanguard of the creation of the international economy that had emerged by 1914.
		Many of the trading companies served the automobile industry (in the first half of the twentieth century as agencies, before sales and assembly affiliates were established by car companies); in the post-Second World War years, as dealerships (in the trading companies' traditional markets but also in the United Kingdom).
		On British overseas business, she coined the phrase 'free-standing companies' to describe the large number of firms established in Britain that operated exclusively abroad.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0283.shtml (2201 words)

	TheStreet.com: British Companies Protest Paying Tax on Employee Stock Options
		Thanks to a wrinkle that holds British companies liable for the gain on stock options issued to their employees, Internet companies based in the U.K. stand to owe the government millions.
		With the shares swinging widely since the company went public in October, from a high of 117 3/8 to a low of 4 21/32, estimating the charge is like playing darts blindfolded.
		Companies also can choose to use option plans that are approved by the Inland Revenue Service, but under these plans, no individual can be granted options in excess of 30,000 pounds.
	www.thestreet.com /int/euromarkets/951317.html (783 words)

	Mike O'Brien on role of British Companies in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I hope that, as was the case with the original Bechtel contracts, British companies secure a large slice of the new contracts.
		Already, many British firms are contributing to the reconstruction programme in Iraq across a wide range of sectors.
		We want British companies to play an important role in reconstruction and in developing the country's economy and private sector.
	www.caabu.org /press/documents/obrien-british-companies-in-iraq.html (1709 words)

	British shipping companies (B)
		In 1813, the monopoly of the East India Company to India was abolished, and India became Brocklebank's main field of operation, along with Northern and Southern America, and West and East Indies.
		The company, which operated from 1916 to 1923, was a subsidiary of Lever Brothers which presumably accounts for the extra "L".
		In 1954 the company appears to have had two coastal vessels: the "City of Brussels" and the "City of London." But this is different from the other more famous "City of Brussels" which was the first ship to cross the Atlantic in 8 days (different owner, different era).
	www.fotw.net /flags/gb~hfbri.html (495 words)

	British Space Companies Resilient Against Global Downturn
		PARIS — British space companies have survived the global industry downturn with little damage and most are expecting double-digit annual sales growth in the next couple of years, according to a survey for the British National Space Centre (BNSC).
		British companies have been largely absent from work on Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket development and the international space station, both of which have been declining in the past two years.
		The survey found that 55 percent of the companies surveyed their annual sales to grow by more than 10 percent in the next two years.
	www.space.com /spacenews/archive04/globalarch_042104.html (794 words)

	History of BRITISH COLONIAL AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		British blockades in the war of 1812 make Astoria useless to his American Fur Company, but by the same token of considerable interest to the North West Company.
		The company now has administrative responsibility for an enormous region, stretching from the western boundary of Ontario (Upper Canada in the language of the time) to the Pacific.
		The southern border of much of this British territory has recently been established in the peace-making process after the war of 1812 (during which American troops burn the parliament buildings in Toronto).
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=800&HistoryID=aa80 (2373 words)

	Brtish Programme Production Companies
		Commercial TV is structured regionally with two companies serving London (one on weekdays and the other at weekends) and 13 others serving the rest of the United Kingdom.
		For many years Thames was the largest and wealthiest of the ITV companies and built a high reputation for producing a wide range of high quality programmes with a particular emphasis on contemporary drama.
		There was a proliferation of new small independent production companies, fuelled by the Channel Four commissions, and the 1990 Broadcasting Bill that required both the BBC and ITV companies to commission at least 25% of their programmes from independent producers by 1993.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/britishprogr/britishprogr.htm (2826 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - British companies continue to see Dubai as a haven of opportunity
		UK companies are perceived as world leaders in education, especially for distance and virtual learning.
		In the early years of Dubai's development many companies were involved in the construction sector, but they tend to dominate the downstream industries, such as interior design and furniture.
		As if to emphasis the increasing interest of British companies in the region, the number of events arranged by the British embassy to inform companies about doing business in the UAE and connect them with the right people, seems to be rising.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/business/2005/December/business_December144.xml§ion=business&col= (554 words)

	House flags of British shipping companies (2)
		In 1901 the company was sold to J. Ellerman and became Ellerman's City Line.
		This was a British family firm located in Connah's Quay in Wales originated by Captain John Coppack in 1860 and lasting until the early 1970s.
		British and Irish was purchased by the Irish Government in 1965 and the remainder of the company was purchased in 1971 by (PandO).
	www.fotw.us /flags/gb~hf02.html (885 words)

	British companies draw huge profits from occupied Iraq
		The biggest British outfit, Aegis—run by Tim Spicer, the former British army lieutenant colonel who founded the PMC Sandline—has a workforce the size of a military division and may rank as the largest corporate military group ever assembled, according to the report.
		Many of the British companies presently involved in Iraq have enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the current Labour and previous Conservative governments and the vast majority of the UK-based PMC/PSCs are run by ex-British secret service figures.
		He is the former British ambassador to the United Nations and Her Majesty’s former special representative in Iraq, in which capacity he served as deputy administrator to Paul Bremer within the Coalition Provisional Authority, before quitting in March 2004.
	wsws.org /articles/2006/apr2006/prof-a01.shtml (1077 words)

	Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries — HBS Working ...
		In Asia, British political influence was extended over the whole of the Malayan peninsular from the 1870s, while the annexation of Upper Burma in 1886 brought the rest of that country under British control.
		The ability of the British companies to utilize the London capital market and accumulated expatriate savings overseas provided them with funds to expand on a greater scale, though it also created governance structures which were more dependent on contracts and relationships than equity.
		Though joint stock companies were used as vehicles for diversification by the British companies, the partnership form remained widely employed by many of the parent merchant firms.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item/2075.html (1494 words)

	Trade to Colonization - Historic Dynamics, East India Companies - History, British Colonization, India, African Slave ...
		Unaffected by the pompous stuffiness of the British gentry, the British employees of the East India Company made the most of life in India - dressing in cool and comfortable Indian garments, enjoying Indian pastimes and absorbing local words in their dialect.
		In essence, the race for the colonization of India had been won by the British, and what Abbe de Pradt was saying was that it was in French interest to enjoy the "general" benefits of this victory and not bemoan the loss of "specific" benefits from the British victory.
		A phase that saw constant challenges to British hegemony in the region, but it was not till 1947 that a new era could be ushered.
	members.tripod.com /~INDIA_RESOURCE/eastindia.html (2559 words)

	Category:Early British railway companies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A number of very early British railway companies were short-lived, and were soon amalgamated into larger organisations, which were themselves grouped into the 'Big Four' in 1923 (see List of railway companies involved in the 1923 grouping).
		See also the List of early British railway companies.
		The Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Early_British_railway_companies (118 words)

	British shipping companies (A)
		The company stopped operating as a maritime entity in 1977 changing its name to Residual Assco Group Ltd. The Marine division became Adsteam Marine Ltd. Australia.
		The UK company apparently became Hall Brothers Steam Ship Co., U.K. Ltd. and some later sources show the livery under this name and domicile, others inclining to merely using Allan Line.
		Originally the main flag was blue-white-red, the change being shown by Lloyds 1904 and I suspect that it may have occurred with the 1897 change.
	www.fotw.us /flags/gb~hfaa.html (797 words)

	British shipping companies (A)
		The Asiatic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd was formed in 1878, with Turner and Co. as managing agents to run steamships in the Bay of Bengal with its vessels primarily carrying cargo and local labour.
		The flag was a white burgee, bordered in blue and with a bluebird motif in the centre.
		In 1974 the company was acquired by Townsend Thoresen and the flag slowly phased out as ship liveries were changed at refit.
	flagspot.net /flags/gb~hfan.html (1344 words)

	British shipping companies (B)
		The company merged with John McConnell and Co. in 1900.
		Borchard Lines Ltd. Flag emblem is that of the German company Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs Reederei Richard Borchard GmbH with the colours reversed.
		Although adversely affected by 200 mile fishing limits and EC membership, the company was still in operation in 2003, fishing in the North Atlantic with two filleter/freezer trawlers.
	www.fotw.net /flags/gb~hfbo.html (950 words)

	Planet Ark : ANALYSIS - British companies warm to greenhouse gas trading
		Companies that do not make their targets can buy these allowances to offset their emissions, either directly or through brokers.
		Thirty-four British organisations, including blue-chip firms such as British Airways and BP as well as the Natural History Museum in London, bid in an auction this month for 215 million pounds ($306.9 million) of government incentives to join the UK scheme.
		Nearly 6,000 more companies are expected to join the UK trading scheme, already holding agreements with the government to cut emissions under the current climate change levy system.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/15189/story.htm (1081 words)

	AM - British companies vie for Iraq reconstruction contracts
		LINDA MOTTRAM: British companies are scrambling to catch up with their American competitors in securing Iraqi reconstruction contracts and they're urging Australian firms to move quickly too to get what they call "their fair share".
		British firms and their representatives have expressed concern that US standards and specifications might rule out their participation in subcontracts but they're also enthusiastic about the long-term commercial potential of Iraq and they are angling to get a foothold.
		Already, there's one British company has offered to build prosthetics for somebody, that lost, a little kiddie that lost both their arms.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2003/s829927.htm (659 words)

	British shipping companies (Q, R) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The firm’s initials are put in the corners (R, M, and, C with raised 'o' arranged in the usual fashion) and in the centre are the Prince of Wales’s feathers and coronet.
		The design dates from before 1934 when the company were asked to alter their colours by the War Office and changed them to a blue cross with a red border.
		The company continued trading in the post-war period, but, despite new vessels of larger size being bought in 1956 and 1962, the 'Runswick' and the 'Egton', the world economic climate proved unfavourable to small-scale cargo enterprises and in 1985 the company went into voluntary liquidation."
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/gb~hfqr.html (1970 words)

	The War Dividend: The British companies making a fortune out of conflict-riven Iraq - Looking Glass News
		It is a global project management company specialising in the oil and gas and engineering sectors.
		It is a London and Dublin listed oil and gas exploration company, with current operations focused on Iraq where it is seeking licences to run three existing oil wells.
		His firm Bell-Pottinger was awarded a £3m by the British Government to promote democracy in the run-up to the 2004 elections.
	www.lookingglassnews.org /viewstory.php?storyid=5375 (1555 words)

	The History Of The British Airways Museum
		It was formed to preserve the records and artefacts of British Airways predecessor companies BOAC, BEA, BSAA and the pre-war Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. As well as the Collection itself housed at Heathrow Airport, various former fleet aircraft are preserved and displayed at the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford in Shropshire.
		One by one, the fledgling companies ceased operations, undercut by heavily subsidised French and Dutch competitors.
		As a result, British Caledonian was born in 1970, when the original Caledonian Airways took over British United Airways.
	www.bamuseum.com /museumhistory.html (1113 words)

	Performance in Profile 2006 - British Council - Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Companies and artists have been identified by drawing on our knowledge of different global markets and audiences.
		All companies and artists included have expressed an interest in international touring and have sufficient administrative capacity to support the demands of touring.
		Inclusion here does not automatically mean that the British Council will be able to offer financial support for every international invitation that is secured.
	www.britishcouncil.org /arts-performance-in-profile.htm (260 words)

	CorpWatch : UK: British Companies Demand Relaxed Regulations
		Rolls-Royce, the Airbus Consortium and BAE Systems were named by John Weiss, deputy director of the Export Credit Guarantee Department, as the main objectors to rules which came into force last May and are to be watered down from next month.
		The new rules led to advice from lawyers to companies and the banks who guarantee the company loans that firms should not sign up to ECGD deals because they could not know that all the people involved in the project were not involved in any bribery or corruption.
		Companies will no longer have to guarantee that their affiliates or joint venture partners are not involved in bribery.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=11697 (560 words)

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