1: 1851-1899 Elephant and Castle to the Strand
2: 1899-1913 A new business emerges
3: 1914-1928 Flotation, war, boom and bust, recovery
4: 1929 - 1939 A decade of diversification
5: 1939 - 1945 The war factory
6: 1945 - 1959 From austerity to prosperity
7: 1960-1975 The triumph of decentralization
8: 1976-1990 Shocking the markets
9: 1991-2000 The end of an era
10: 2000-2007 Shocking the markets again
11: A fortune in change
James Nye's first career was in finance and commerce, followed by a
PhD in financial history at King's College London, where he holds a
visiting fellowship in the Institute of Contemporary British
History. He is also an award-winning historian of technology, with
a focus on the history of distributed accurate time. James sits on
the council of the AHS, and the editorial advisory panel of
Antiquarian Horology. He is a liveryman of the Worshipful
Company of Clockmakers, and was the founder and principal sponsor
of The Clockworks, a unique London museum, workshop, and library
dedicated to the history of electrical timekeeping
(www.theclockworks.org).
For historians of British business and economic history the author
offers a masterly account of the transformation of a family firm
into a professionally-run managerial multinational enterprise.It is
a tour de force
*Alun Davies, Antiquarian Horology*
Conglomerates are deeply unfashionable and if one were assembling a
manufacturing business from scratch, it would not resemble Smiths
Group. Yet a fascinating new history of the £4.6 billion FTSE 100
engineer, which has divisions spanning healthcare, energy, airport
detection, telecoms and components, makes a reasonably good case
for the business staying as it is. James Nye argues that the
conglomerate nature of the company has come to its aid over the
years.
*Ian King, The Times*
Dr James Nye has written a quite remarkable history of Smiths
Industries (now Smiths Group), the last British manufacture, that
eventually diversified into everything from autopilots to airport
body scanners.
*The Watch Nerd*
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