Successful Businessmen. Short accounts of the rise of famous firms with sketches of the founders

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Covers Copestake Lindsay Crampton & Co, textile warehouse; W H Smith & Son, retailers; Smith Payne & Smiths, bankers; Thomas Cook & Son Ltd, travel industry services; Bryant & May Ltd, match makers; Sir Titus Salt Bart Son & Co Ltd, textile manufacturers; Mudie's Circulating Library; Samuel Allsopp & Sons Ltd, brewers; Sutton & Sons, seed growing; Prices's Patent Candle Co Ltd, candle makers; Sir Josiah Mason, writing equipment manufacture; Chubb Lock & Safe Co Ltd, safe manufacturers; Brown & Poulson Ltd, food processors; Sir W G Armstrong Mitchell & Co Ltd, armaments and engineers