User contributions for Scruppy Two

15 November 2024

• 14:3714:37, 15 November 2024 diff hist +91 m William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire No edit summary current

3 October 2024

• 12:2912:29, 3 October 2024 diff hist +291 m George Alfred Wills No edit summary

8 September 2024

• 10:2810:28, 8 September 2024 diff hist +235 m John Player & Sons No edit summary
• 00:1200:12, 8 September 2024 diff hist −129 John Player & Sons Correction. As Wills, another branch of Imperial, produced 45.2% of the UK's cigarette output in 1936 (& 44% in 1937) by number of cigarettes (Alford, p.479), the following is not possible: "Two-thirds of all the cigarettes sold in Britain were Player's and two-thirds of these were branded as Player's Medium Navy Cut."

7 September 2024

• 23:5123:51, 7 September 2024 diff hist −59 m John Player & Sons Tidying.

6 September 2024

• 11:2711:27, 6 September 2024 diff hist +185 Multi-divisional form Disadvantages of m-form revisited. current
• 11:2411:24, 6 September 2024 diff hist −188 m Multi-divisional form The section on the disadvantages of the M-form is chaotic - the disadvantages listed also apply to both the U-form and Holding Company. This section is also long on assertion but exceedingly short of citations. Disappointing - not least because the sources would be interesting - and maybe useful. Tag: Undo
• 10:3510:35, 6 September 2024 diff hist +188 Multi-divisional form The section on the disadvatages of the M-form is chaotic - the disadvantages listed also apply to both the U-form and Holding Company. This section is also long on asertion but exceedingly short of citations. Tag: Reverted
• 10:2510:25, 6 September 2024 diff hist +226 m Multi-divisional form Caveat re Williamson - quote suggests he argued only M-form companies prospered; maybe this citation was provided out of context.

5 September 2024

• 17:1317:13, 5 September 2024 diff hist +156 m Multi-divisional form Inserted reference to Chandler, Alfred D. Jr. and Stephen Salsbury, 1962/1998, Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise (MIT Press).
• 16:5716:57, 5 September 2024 diff hist +251 m Multi-divisional form Removed "dead" link.

28 August 2024

• 11:1511:15, 28 August 2024 diff hist +30 m W.D. & H.O. Wills Undid revision 1240809708 by 82.6.165.87 (talk) Tag: Undo

24 August 2024

• 15:1015:10, 24 August 2024 diff hist −4 John Player & Sons No edit summary
• 15:0815:08, 24 August 2024 diff hist +194 John Player & Sons Clarified post-1901 status of John Player as a branch of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain & Ireland
• 14:3214:32, 24 August 2024 diff hist +401 John Player & Sons No edit summary

23 August 2024

• 23:3323:33, 23 August 2024 diff hist +10 m Alfred D. Chandler Jr. No edit summary
• 23:2923:29, 23 August 2024 diff hist +390 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Chandler's links to Alfred P. Sloan and biography of Pierre S. du Pont added to the early years covered in the biography provided here.
• 23:0923:09, 23 August 2024 diff hist +95 m Alfred D. Chandler Jr. No edit summary
• 18:0418:04, 23 August 2024 diff hist +810 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Introduces Chandler's biography of Pierre S. Du Pont that supported his subsequent publications in the 1970s.
• 12:2812:28, 23 August 2024 diff hist +19 m Scunthorpe Steelworks No edit summary
• 00:0800:08, 23 August 2024 diff hist +148 m Scunthorpe Steelworks No edit summary

22 August 2024

• 23:5723:57, 22 August 2024 diff hist +247 m Scunthorpe Steelworks No edit summary
• 21:3221:32, 22 August 2024 diff hist +21 m Imperial Brands No edit summary
• 21:2921:29, 22 August 2024 diff hist −270 m Imperial Brands Imperial Tobacco of Great Britain and Ireland were precluded by the terms under which BAT was created - this stipulated that all "foreign" located ventures fell within the purvey of BAT. The Imperial Tobacco Company of India was a independent and unassociated business corporation.
• 21:2121:21, 22 August 2024 diff hist −1 Imperial Brands No edit summary
• 21:2021:20, 22 August 2024 diff hist +311 m Imperial Brands No edit summary
• 14:0814:08, 22 August 2024 diff hist −109 m Imperial Brands No edit summary
• 13:5913:59, 22 August 2024 diff hist +391 Edwin Lutyens Records the Lutyens-designed war memorial installed at the Bedminster Head Offices of the Imperial Tobacco Company in 1921 and notes that the aforementioned protection under law was too late to save this monument that was lost after the Hanson Trust take-over of 1986.

15 August 2024

• 14:5614:56, 15 August 2024 diff hist +176 Harry McGowan, 1st Baron McGowan Explosive Trades Ltd. (later Nobel Industries, even later ICI) bought the General Motors shares in a financial deal arranged by Harry McGowan, its Chief Executive). . current

12 June 2024

• 13:4713:47, 12 June 2024 diff hist +19 m W.D. & H.O. Wills No edit summary

7 June 2024

• 18:0618:06, 7 June 2024 diff hist −5 m Gilbert Wills, 1st Baron Dulverton No edit summary

12 May 2024

• 13:2813:28, 12 May 2024 diff hist +17 m Demographics of the United Kingdom This graph starts with the population of England and then becomes the UK population - the source is mislead and misleading.
• 13:1313:13, 12 May 2024 diff hist +16 m Demographics of the United Kingdom No edit summary

31 March 2024

• 12:5812:58, 31 March 2024 diff hist +670 W.D. & H.O. Wills Describes the transition associated with creation of Imperial Tobacco co-ordinated by the Wills family that saw the company transformed into a branch (or division) of Imperial. Tag: Disambiguation links added

26 March 2024

• 11:1811:18, 26 March 2024 diff hist −77 Godfrey Phillips India Godfrey Phillips was not one of the thirteen founding companies of Imperial Tobacco - rather it was, along with Carreras, an independent manufacturer, one of the remaining notable competitors of the much larger Imperial Tobacco Company through the First World War and the interwar years.

13 January 2024

• 15:4915:49, 13 January 2024 diff hist +223 Percy Girouard No edit summary
• 15:3315:33, 13 January 2024 diff hist +298 m Percy Girouard No edit summary
• 15:1715:17, 13 January 2024 diff hist +1 Percy Girouard No edit summary
• 15:1515:15, 13 January 2024 diff hist +121 m Percy Girouard No edit summary

20 October 2023

• 15:1515:15, 20 October 2023 diff hist 0 m List of 19th-century British periodicals Publication date extended.
• 15:1215:12, 20 October 2023 diff hist 0 m List of 19th-century British periodicals No edit summary
• 15:0615:06, 20 October 2023 diff hist +179 List of 19th-century British periodicals "The Statist" inserted'

10 October 2023

• 12:4212:42, 10 October 2023 diff hist +25 The Brunts Academy EH.net announcement - 10/10/2023.

21 August 2023

• 18:3818:38, 21 August 2023 diff hist +6 m Trimontium (Newstead) Deere Street link inserted

15 July 2023

• 18:2718:27, 15 July 2023 diff hist +2 Scunthorpe This was the first Lord St Oswald (not his son); patron Scunthorpe Church of England school (colloquially known as Gurnell Street School) and the St John the Evangelist church, was still alive in 1891 - he died two years later.
• 17:5417:54, 15 July 2023 diff hist +1 m Scunthorpe No edit summary
• 17:4417:44, 15 July 2023 diff hist +242 Scunthorpe Referencing the role of Roland Winn and Scunthorpe's "official" history.
• 17:1417:14, 15 July 2023 diff hist +132 User talk:Scruppy Two →Bristol: Reply current Tag: Reply
• 16:4916:49, 15 July 2023 diff hist +39 m Nostell Priory No edit summary Tag: Disambiguation links added
• 16:4016:40, 15 July 2023 diff hist −11 m Nostell Priory No edit summary