Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd
TypePrivate Limited Company
IndustryActivities of head offices
Founded29 June 1907
HeadquartersShell Centre, 4 York Road, Lambeth, London,
London
,
England
Key people
Michael Ashworth
£10,000.00 on 7 Apr 2015
ParentShell plc Edit this on Wikidata
Websiteshell.com

Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd is a private company owned by Royal Dutch Shell.

History

Around 1898 the company became responsible for the ships of Shell Transport and Trading. In 1907 it continued to be responsible for the trade in oil by-products when the Dutch Petroleum Company was established to take over the petroleum business of the Dutch state authorities and the Shell company. The same year it was incorporated into Royal Dutch Shell. In 1908 Shell Transport and Trading had placed all of its assets in Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co and Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij which also held all of the assets of Royal Dutch Shell. Since then the company owned and ran the oil transport and storage activities of the Shell group of companies. During the following two decades Anglo-Saxon became the most progressive, innovative and forward-looking of all the oil carriers. In order to match transport demand, they commissioned new buildings based on their own design or, indeed, bought and re-designed existing ships with an amazing degree of innovative thinking and fantasy. Liner ships, general cargo vessels, sailing ships and even train ferries were re-built and made into oil carriers.[1]

In November 1955 The Shell Petroleum Company Ltd. took over the assets of Anglo-Saxon, which ceased to function as a separate company.[2]

Managing Directors appointed 1907-1946

General managing directors of Royal Dutch and chairmen of Shell Transport are marked with an asterisk - see the appropriate list above for their dates in office. In November 1955 The Shell Petroleum Company Ltd. took over the assets of Anglo-Saxon, which ceased to function as a separate company.

(first Lord Godber of Mayfield)

  • Jan Carel van Panthaleon Baron van Eck 1 January 1937 – 31 December 1946
  • (Sir) George Legh-Jones 1 January 1938 – 30 July 1951
  • • Drs. Barthold T. W. van Hasselt 20 July 1944 – 31 December 1951
  • Hon. (Sir) Francis Hopwood 19 July 1946 - November 1955

(second Lord Southborough)

References

  1. ↑ "Reviews of ANGLO-SAXON PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED". Bestbusinessuk.com. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co". Gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  • Official website
  • Business data for Royal Dutch Shell plc:
  • Anglo-Saxon Petroleum companies grouped at OpenCorporates
  • Works by Shell Union Oil Corporation at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by or about Anglo-Saxon Petroleum at Internet Archive
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