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The Royal Mail Case or R v Kylsant & Otrs was a noted English criminal case in 1931. The director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company , Lord Kylsant , had falsified a trading prospectus with the aid of the company accountant to make it look as if the company was profitable and to entice potential investors.
Taking advantage of a low share price, the brothers acquired shares in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and by 1902 Owen had become chairman and managing director of the line. [3] Over the next twenty years he and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company acquired a controlling interest in more than twenty other companies, including the Union ...
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was Per Mare Ubique (everywhere by sea). After a troubled start, it became the largest shipping group in the world in 1927 when it took over the White Star Line . [ 1 ]
Lamport and Holt was an independent partnership until 1911, when it became a limited company and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP) took it over. RMSP collapsed as a result of the Royal Mail Case in 1931 but was reconstituted as Royal Mail Lines in 1932.
In 1932 he became Chairman of Royal Mail Lines, which was created from the assets of the collapsed Royal Mail Steam Packet Company after the Royal Mail Case. [ 2 ] Lewis was created a Baronet in 1918 and raised to the peerage as Baron Essendon , of Essendon in the County of Hertford , on 20 June 1932.
The Royal Mail Case criminal prosecution of Lord Kylsant, director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP), in 1931 led to the liquidation of that company in 1932. . RMSP was restructured as Royal Mail Lines and companies connected with it also had to restruc
In the First World War the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company lost a number of ships to enemy action, including three of its "A-series" passenger liners: Alcantara, Aragon and Asturias. [3] After the 1918 Armistice RMSP prioritised the replacement of lost cargo ships , [ 4 ] using new refrigerated cargo ships to take a share of the growing trade ...
RMS Douro was a British passenger liner that served from 1865 to 1882 with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. [3] She was sunk in a collision in 1882. Construction and career