Bernard,
I've been keeping an eye open for any follow up to your posting below
concerning the Simplex Company, as I recently acquired a £100 5% debenture
certificate in the Company, issued to Ronald Hugh FitzRoy, of Benthall Hall,
Broseley (sic), on October 21, 1904 (full name "The Simplex Copper
Extraction [Ireland] Syndicate Ltd."). Unfortunately the 4 side, foolscap
size certificate provides no information about the Company itself, other
than noting the said R.Fitz-Roy as Director and Lawrence Halliston,
Secretary. A manuscript note on the certificate adds: FitzRoy, Roll of
Chambers, SW 1, 24 Jan, 1906. Other stamps note that the debenture was
registered at the Companies Registration Office on March 14, 1905, pursuant
to its registration with the Chancery Division of the High Court on March
10, 1905.
And that's essentially it, I'm afraid. I can find no reference to the
Company in Cole, or in the Geological Survey of Ireland 1835-1920 index to
articles about mines etc in Ireland in the Mining Journal. Neither did Des
Cowman and I come across it when we spent a week last year in the PRO, Kew
going through Companies Office records relating to companies which operated
in Ireland [we published an index to all such records that we came across in
Vol. 1 of the new Journal of the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland].
However, to my chagrin, I've just gone on to the PRO site, and found under
Board of Trade, Companies Office, BT 31, the following listings:
Company # 78055. Simplex Copper Extraction Company Ltd. File:
BT31/1067/78055. Formed in 1903
Company # 80325. Simplex Copper Extraction (Ireland) Syndicate Ltd. File:
BT31/10616/80325. Formed in 1904.
The latter is obviously the company you are interested in. However, two
companies with very similar titles might suggest some sort of connection -
maybe a "stable" of such companies trying to promote a new recovery method?
A trip to Kew might reveal all!
Regards,
John.
-----Original Message-----
From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Bernard Moore
Sent: 18 April 2002 21:35
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Subject: Hedworth Barium Ltd
Dear All,
Thanks to Russell Wears' help, it is interesting to learn about the
involvement of the above with the Cow Green Mine. My commitments just at the
moment prevent normal researches, but I can confirm the above from the
Durham
& Northumberland Min.Stats. by Burt, White & Burnley (pbld. by Exeter).
Here is another project(!): I would be happy to pay £25.00 or so for the
Min.Stats. - as pbld. - to be on CD with a name search. Would it be possible
Roger?! If every new mining history book added it's Index to a central data
base, what a useful tool it would be for all? A name/item search to the data
base would then show the pbl. to look for. A seed for an idea anyway!
Finding the Simplex Copper Extraction Synd. Ltd is not that simple
unfortunately(!), but I am hoping that the Mems. of Localities of Minerals
of
Economic Importance and Metalliferous Mines of Ireland by Cole, (pbld. by
the
Mining Heritage Society of Ireland), will give some direction when I have
time to scan through it! Any info. would be much appreciated.
Regards, Bernard.
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