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Written by Steve
, Thursday, 30 July 2009
Halcyon was commissioned by the Lancashire industrialist Sir Samuel Turner in 1929, he chairman of Turner and Newall at that time. He kept her in his ownership until 1944...
He owned the Turner & Newall Company, a leading manufacturing business based in Manchester, United Kingdom. At its peak, it was a constituent of the FT30 index of leading companies on the London Stock Exchange. The third (Sir) Samuel Turner (1878-1955) was chairman from 1929 to 1944: he endowed a School of Industrial Administration at Manchester Municipal College of Technology as well as a Dental School at the Victoria University of Manchester (the Dental School and Hospital donation was £99,000) The company's development under the third Samuel was rapid: it acquired Bells' United Asbestos Companies and several asbestos insulation companies in the UK.
