Company law has been subject to change over time. I have come across instances of two different companies (19th Cent) with the same name, a later company having the same name as an earlier one. This would not be allowed today as companies remain on the register even after they are dissolved. The company name is as it appears on the company register and reproduced on the Certificate of Incorporation.
My question is are you sure that it is one and the same company?
It occurs that the parenthesised year could have been used to distinguish one from the other. Again, this would not be allowed today, Companies House would reject the application. Things are a lot tighter nowadays.
The name of the company is everything that appears before the "Ltd" being an abbreviation for "Limited"
Apart from this, sorry cannot be of any more help.
Regards
Roy
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From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of margaret and michael shaw
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Subject: company names
rather a tenuous link to mining history, but ... When reference was made to
the formation of Shropshire Mines Limited in 1917 the London Gazette
referred to it as Shropshire Mines (1916) Limited, the National Archives
BT31 file 23508/145661 refers to the company just as Shropshire Mines
Limited, what is the standing of the (1916)? I am sure that I have come
across concerns where an absence of dates or the presence of dates in
brackets have distinguished successor companies, presumably in these cases
the date would be part of the company's legal name. In the lack of an
idiot's guide to company law can anyone help please.
Mike Shaw
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