Managing Collection

S. F. Edge
Selwyn Francis Edge (1868 - 1940), Australian businessman, racing driver, and record-breaker. He is principally associated with selling and racing De Dion-Bouton, Gladiator; Clem鮴 -Panhard

Mr R. H. Gillespie, Managing Director, London Hippodrome
R. H. Gillespie, managing director of the London Hippodrome from 1919 and director of Moss Empires Ltd, caricatured by Nerman in The Tatler. Date: 1926

Official wording, Apprenticeship Indenture
Official wording of an Apprenticeship Indenture, between John Henry Watson of 3 Newland Street, Derby, and Messrs John Davis & Son (Derby) Limited

Programme cover, The Manchester Hippodrome, Oxford Street, Manchester. 1912

Sir Mark Norman, Managing Director of Britten-Norman Sales, circa 1970. Sir Mark was the brother of company co-founder Desmond Norman. Date: circa 1970

Mrs. Claude Johnson
A portrait painting of Evelyn Maud Johnson, second wife to Claude Goodman Johnson, the managing director of Rolls Royce from 1906, and was a great friend of the artist

Tree in a Gusty Wind
An etching of a tree, managing to withstand a mighty, blustery wind, as it perches on a rocky slope. Date: circa 1915

Alexander Carlisle, Managing Director, Harland & Wolff
Portrait photograph in sepia of the Olympic class designer Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, Managing Director of Harland & Wolff, signed bottom right ever your old father'. Date: early 20th century

A J Elvin, Managing Director of Wembley Stadium
Mr A J Elvin, Managing Director of Wembley Stadium Date: 1946

Thomas J Barratt, English businessman, Father of Modern Advertising, Chairman of Pears Soap. Date: 19th century

Cartoon, A good idea, WW1
Cartoon, A good idea. A French soldier says he has asked his father to write to say he is dead: that way, he will be able to get leave of absence from the Front. Date: 1916

Sir Isidore Salmon (1876-1941), co-founder of Salmon and Gluckstein Tobacconists which evolved into the J. Lyons catering empire. Salmon was manager and director of the J

Frank Parker & Frank Allen of the London Hippodrome
Frank Allen, manager and then managing director of the London Hippodrome, and partner in Moss Empires Ltd. at the wheel of his twelve horse-power Eagle car

Mr H. E. Moss, managing director of the London Hippodrome
Sir Horace Edward Moss (1852 - 1912), British theatre impresario and the founder, chairman and joint managing director of the Moss Empires Ltd

Advert, Howard and Wyndham Ltd, Theatres in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham. 1937

Managing Director of Welbeck Minicabs accepts new fleet cars
Mr Sidney Goldberg, the Managing Director of Welbeck Minicabs of London, accepts the first of his new fleet of 300 Ford Cortinas. 1963

The New Middlesex Theatre of Varieties, Drury Lane, London, in association with the London Coliseum, Chairman and Managing Director Oswald Stoll, Director J L Graydon. 1915

Miss Cotter Ludey, Managing Director of a London business
Miss Cotter-Ludey, who started life as a typist, is became managing director of a successful London business with big connections abroad

Arthur Giordano, managing director of Kettner s
Arturo Giordano, known simply as Arthur, Managing Director of the famous Kettners restaurant in Soho. Date: 1930

Sir Arthur du Cros
Sir Arthur Philip du Cros, 1st Baronet du Cros (1871 - 1955), British industrialist and politician. Managing director of Dunlop Rubber Company and Unionist member for Hastings. Date: 1896

321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
One of three photographs showing 321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, managing the controlled explosion of a stolen Datsun 120Y, Omagh district, 1975

Charles Gulliver - Managing Director of the London Palladium
Charles Gulliver, theatre producer, impresario and managing director of the London Palladium during the First World War and 1920s

Costelloe Lodge - Home to Bruce Ismay after Titanic Disaster
Costelloe Lodge in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland - the retreat that Joseph Bruce Ismay lived in after the Titanic disaster

Thomas J. Barratt
Thomas James Barratt (1841-1914), chairman of soap manufacturer A&F Pears. Called here the pioneer of pictorial advertisement and elsewhere the father of modern advertising. Date: C.1912

Simon Hick and Leslie Loaf, Penwith, Cornwall
Simon Hick, Penwith 83 Rock Festival organiser and Managing Director of Artina, with Leslie Loaf (Leslie G. Edmonds), wife of Meat Loaf

Tennis champion Anthony Wilding & C. T. Craig
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion 1910-1913, pictured with Mr C. T. Craig, managing director of the firm Messrs

Charles & William Ingram
CHARLES AND WILLIAM INGRAM Publishers, sons of Herbert Ingram, managing directors of the Illustrated London News. Date: 1892

Portrait of Joseph Bruce Ismay
Joseph Bruce Ismay, Managing Director of the White Star Line and President of the International Mercantile Marine Company

Advertisement, Birmingham Empire Theatre, Moss Empires Ltd, Managing Director R H Gillespie. Showing Pierrot and Columbine taking a bow. 1926

Richard Harding Davis
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS American journalist and novelist, Managing editor of Harpers Weekly : this photo shows him as a young man. Date: 1864 - 1916

Tango (Finetti) 1914
You might think that enormous hat of hers would make tangoing awkward, but they seem to be managing alright... Date: 1914

Cartoon, Translation, WW1
Cartoon, Translation. French and German soldiers discuss their respective systems. The system of getting by which the French call System D, is known by the Germans as System K! Date: 1916

Cartoon, Lorinne, or hidden love, WW1
Cartoon, Lorinne, or hidden love. A pretty young woman has been able to visit her soldier completely unnoticed, thanks to her disguise as a fruit seller! Date: 1916

Cartoon, How to get hold of some plonk, WW1
Cartoon, How Herbinet used System D to get hold of some plonk. Showing how a soldier gradually extracts wine from a large barrel in a stable. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The gourmands, WW1
Cartoon, The gourmands. Soldiers with a bowl of apples, a rabbit and a carrot promise a cook that when they return from patrol they will bring him some prisoners. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Naivety, WW1
Cartoon, Naivety. A woman is delighted that, thanks to System D, her husband has been able to get a leave of absence from the army

Herbert Beerbohm Tree - English actor and theatre manager
Mr. Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917), English actor and theatre manager, was managing the Haymarket Theatre and winning praise for adventurous programming and lavish productions. Date: 1890

Sir Arthur du Cros
Sir Arthur Philip du Cros, 1st Baronet du Cros (26 January 1871 28 October 1955) was a British industrialist and politician

Bianchi cars at Hampton Court Palace, London
Four Bianchi cars outside Hampton Court Palace, London, on the occasion of a Press run following the opening of the new Bianchi showrooms in St Jamess Street

Sir Ralph and Lady Sorley at the 1953 Royal Aeronautical?
Sir Ralph and Lady Sorley at the 1953 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Hatfield on 14 June. Sir Ralph was Managing Director of de Havilland Propellers

Illustration of growing and managing trees. Illustration (intaglio) from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Des semis et plantations des arbres, et de leur culture. Plate VI. Date: 1760

Pigeons: Antwerp, Dragon. Illustration from John Matthews Eaton, A treatise on the art of breeding and managing, tame, domesticated and fancy pigeons. Date: 1858

H G Conway CBE FRAeS Managing Director Bristol Siddeley
Hugh G. Conway, CBE, FRAeS, Managing Director, Bristol Siddeley

Titanic - Bruce Ismay
Page from the Illustrated London News reporting on the inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic, featuring a portrait of Joseph Bruce Ismay

The Bosses visit the factory floor
Four clearly rather important men (company directors?) visit, or possibly inspect, a printing works. The job at hand at the time of this photograph was the production of wrappers for Penguin

Titanic Ismay silver tray
A circular silver tray for letters and calling cards, engraved with the names of Joseph Bruce Ismay and his wife. Ismay was Managing Director of the White Star Line

Thomas Andrews
A portrait of Thomas Andrews, Managing Director of Messrs Harland and Wolff, the builders of the Titanic

Harrods Diamond Jubilee, 1909
Illustration showing a number of scenes and figures at the department store, Harrods Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1909. Mr. R

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