Overseas Containers Limited

Overseas Containers Ltd., known as OCL, was a shipping consortium formed in 1965, by the amalgamation of the container interests of P & O, the British & Commonwealth Shipping Co., the Ocean Steam Ship Co. (Blue Funnel), and Furness, Withy & Co. The Barber Blue Sea shipping group was a jo...

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Date(s) of creation: 1984
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSS.11.16
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber JSS/11/16
callnumber_txt JSS/11/16
callnumber-sort JSS/11/16
scb_alt_ref_no JSSII 16
prefix_number 16
title Overseas Containers Limited
scb_date_creation 1984
scb_level Series
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scb_extent 4 files
format Archive
description Overseas Containers Ltd., known as OCL, was a shipping consortium formed in 1965, by the amalgamation of the container interests of P & O, the British & Commonwealth Shipping Co., the Ocean Steam Ship Co. (Blue Funnel), and Furness, Withy & Co. The Barber Blue Sea shipping group was a joint venture between Blue Funnel and the Norwegian firms Wilh. Wilhelmsen and Brostrøms.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London
scb_use_restrictions Copying is permitted for personal research purposes only. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
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hierarchy_sequence JSS.0011.0016