Sujet
The Manager's Office, National Bank of Scotland, 1898. Creator: Reinhold Thiele.
Légende
The Manager's Office, National Bank of Scotland, 1898. '£1 for every man and woman in the Kingdom. £50,000,000 Subscribed...there has been no rush for shares in an industrial enterprise to equal that for the Lipton conversion. The National Bank of Scotland in Nicholas Lane, the Brokers, and Sir Thomas Lipton's own offices in City Road have been literally deluged with applications...an enormous number of applicants attended personally at the National Bank of Scotland, and considerable difficulty was found in conducting business...The crowd was so great that the manager was obliged to engage some seventy additional clerks to enable him to cope with the rush, and these worked all night...The number of letters received is almost inconceivable. A vanload...was the first delivery...over 40.000 communications were received in the two days. Each of these missives contained cash or cheques, varying from single sovereigns to thousands of pounds...Never before has the City seen an issue attended with so much excitement as that which has characterised the conversion of Sir Thomas Lipton's gigantic business, and it will undoubtedly serve as the highest high water-mark by which to estimate the magnitude of similar enterprises in the future'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM26A15_122
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
11.5Mo (786.0Ko) / 19.9cm x 14.5cm / 2354 x 1712 (300dpi)