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Appendix D.—Firms included in Appendix B as having abandoned Profit-sharing who made 
ARRANGEMENTS FOR RECEIVING INVESTMENTS FROM EMPLOYEES, AND THE NATURE OF SUCH 
Investments—(contd.). 
Name of Firm. 
Nature of Business and Number 
of Employees at date of 
abandonment of Profit-sharing. 
Nature of 
Investment. 
Duration 
of Scheme. 
Cause of Cessation of 
Profit-sharing. 
Working Women’s Co-operative As 
sociation, Ltd. 
Shirt and dressmaking* 
Shares 
1885-87 
Want of success ; business trans 
ferred. 
Needlewomen’s Co-operative Asso- 
Underlinen, &c., manufacture (60) ... 
Shares 
1885-94 
Want of success ; dissolution. 
ciation, Ltd. 
Earl Spencer ... 
Farming (11) ... 
Shares (in Capital of 
business). 
1886-97 
Want of success. 
Earl Grey 
Farming (85) ... ... 
Deposits 
1886-1903 
Farms let ; or transition from one 
form of cultivation to another. 
“ G.R.” 
Engineers (100),.. 
Deposits (P.F.) 
1887-1909 
Not known. 
Circle Co-operative Printers’Society, 
Ltd. (formerly Circle Co-operative 
Printing and publishing (5) 
Deposits (P.F.) and 
Shares. 
1887-96 
Dissolution. 
Printing Co.). 
Coventry Gas Fitting, Electrical and 
Gas, electrical and general engineers(41) 
Deposits (P.F.) 
1888-1900 
Liquidation. 
Engineering Co., Ltd. (formerly 
Coventry Gas Fittings Co., Ltd.). 
Binns & Co., Ltd 
Oatmeal and corn factors, seedsmen, 
&c. (11-13). 
Shares... 
1888-1908 
Liquidation. 
Richard Binns 
Fruit farming (4-34) 
Deposits 
1888-99 
Want of success. 
Guild of Handicraft, Ltd 
Furniture makers, metal workers, &c 
(15-25). 
Shares... 
1888-1908 
Liquidation. 
Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. 
Booksellers and publishers (70) 
Shares... 
1889-1904 
Liquidation. 
JNew Welsh Slate Co., Ltd.. 
Slate quarrying (231) 
Shares... 
1889-99 
Liquidation. 
W. D. & H. 0. Wills, Ltd 
Tobacco manufacture* 
Deposits 
1889-1902 
Transfer of business. 
Christopher Thomas & Bios., Ltd. 
Soap and candle manufacture (277) ... 
Deposits ... ... 
1889-1901 
Substitution of shorter hours 
Robert Martin 
Printing (14) 
Deposits (P.F.) 
1890-1900 
Newman & Son 
Printing (26) ... 
Deposits 
1890-1903 
Cardiff Milling Co. (formerly James 
Millers (120) 
Deposits 
1890-98 
Tucker, Ltd.). 
Charles Joyner & Co. 
Chandelier, &c., manufacturers (250) 
Deposits (P.F.) 
1890-94 
G. Holloway 
“ F.N.” 
Farming (*) ... 
Deposits 
1890-92 
Engineers (1,185) 
W orkmen’siDebentures 
1890-1909 
Osborne & Young 
Corn merchants, flour factors and 
Deposits 
1890-1903 
forage merchants (94). 
Robert McVitie 
Baker and confectioner (65-70) 
Deposits (P.F.) 
1890-98 
Idris & Co., Ltd 
Mineral water manufacturers (750) ... 
Preference Shares and 
1890-1904 
Deposits (P.F.) 
Hon. T. A. Brassey ... 
Farming (two farms) ... j ^ 
(1) Deposits 
(2) Shares and De- 
1891-99 
1895-99 
Phillips & Co. ... 
posits (P.F.). 
Teamen and grocers (14) 
Deposits 
1891-94 
William Lawrence & Co., Ltd. (for 
merly William Lawrence). 
Cabinet-making, &c. (400) 
Deposits 
1891-99 
Dobson & Barlow, Ltd 
Engineers (2,800) 
Debentures ... 
1891-1906 
Alfred Hickman ... 
Iron smelting (500) 
Deposits 
1891-94 
“ G.H.” 
Manufacture of woollen and worsted 
Deposits 
1891-1900 
goods (200-250). 
R. H. & S. Rogers, Ltd 
Shirt and collar manufacturers (1,000) 
Deposits 
1891-98 
Crompton & Co., Ltd. 
Electrical engineers (500) 
W orkmen’s Debentures 
1891-95 
* Number of employees not known. 
Dissatisfaction of employer with 
results. 
Transfer of business. 
Liquidation. 
Conversion of business into 
limited company. 
Death of employer. 
Diminution of profits. 
Dissatisfaction of employers with 
results. 
Business converted into a limited 
company, a number of employees 
taking shares. 
Depression of trade. 
| Occupation of farms given up. 
Conversion of business into limited 
company. 
Special circumstances connected 
with conversion of business into 
company. 
Apathy of employees. 
Dissatisfaction of employer with 
results. 
Badness of trade. 
Apathy of employees and liabilities 
imposed by Workmen’s Com 
pensation Act, 1897. 
Scheme not taken up by employees 
generally. 
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