Bernard,
Both Harry and his brother Edward wer associated with Francis Allen for many years, often in the form of complimentary companies, for example E. W. Meyerstein & Co (brokers) and Allen, Tenant & Co (solicitors). Another close associate, in Cornwall at least, was Athelstan Dangerfield, secretary and liquidator....obviously a dangerous man. Allen was still a director of South Crofty when he died in 1944. Companies (mostly Cornish) that they ran or controlled included:
Cornish Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd
South Crofty Ltd
Clitters United Mines Ltd
Botallack Mines Ltd
Norwegian Exploration Company
Norwegian and General Exploration Company Ltd
Wheal Merth Ltd
Cornish Development Ltd
Cornish Trust
Cornish Adventurers (acquired the assets of Tarkwa Consols, west Africa)
Tungsten Metal Company (to acquire the Tungsten and Rare Metals Company (in liquidation); factory at Widnes built by Cornish Developments)
Tarkwa Boring Syndicate
Tarkwa Consols (reverted to old name in 1909)
Famatina Development Corporation (Argentina)
International Copper Company (brokers and financiers for Famatina)
Cornish Consols (merger of Cornish Consolidated, Cornish Trust, Cornish Developments and Wheal Merth)
Botallack Ltd (restructuring of Botallack Mines Ltd)
Mines controlled included:
South Crofty, Botallack, Wheal Sisters, South Wheal Phoenix, Lelant Consols, Botrea, Gunnislake Clitters, Hingston Downs, Old Gunnislake Mine and West Hawkmoor Mine (Clitters United sett) and a Norwegian Emerald Mine.
I wrote this a bit more comprehensively for the journal of the Trevithick Society, no. 31, pp30-42 if you want the detail; I can send it as a Word document.
Pete Joseph
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