Advent of War and Survival 1935–45

Francis E. Hyde
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Chapter 9 in Cunard and the North Atlantic 1840–1973, 1975, pp 247-281 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract From 1935 the status of The Cunard Steam Ship Co. was mainly that of a holding company. It continued the operation and control of the Liverpool—Havre cargo trade as well as that between the United Kingdom and the Mediterranean. Sources of information about the Cunard organisation as a whole, therefore, henceforth become twofold, the annual reports being concerned first with the working of The Cunard Steam Ship Co. Ltd and secondly with that of Cunard White Star Ltd. As a consequence two sets of accounts were presented annually to the shareholders. One can thus distinguish between the fortunes of the Mediterranean services and the difficulty of maintaining profitable traffic across the North Atlantic. This dichotomy is given greater significance when one attempts to compare working capacities in the years of peace from 1935 to 1939 with those during the years of war from 5939 to 1945.

Keywords: Shipping Company; Shipping Line; General Council; Passenger Traffic; Voluntary Liquidation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1975
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-02390-5_9

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