Category: Rhodesia & Nyasaland

  Rhodesian Steel Developments (Pvt) Ltd was located in Charter House, Bulawayo.

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Coombe & Dewar (Pty.) Ltd. were a manufacturer’s representatives and distribution agent located in Salisbury, Ndola and Lusaka. Postcards X Series (Type A)

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The Rhodesia Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (R.A.P.T.) was headquartered at the Trade Fair Grounds in Bulawayo. The Bulawayo branch was located at 13th Avenue. Around 1952, the British Red Cross Society in Bulawayo planned to make a more concerted attack on the social and welfare problems of tuberculosis.…

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  Steel Construction (Rhodesia) Ltd was located on Accra Road, Kitwe. The company were structural engineers. By 1961, it had offices and workshops to Birmingham Road and was providing electrical & mechanical engineer and steel fabrication services.

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Samuel Osborn (Rhodesia) Ltd was an engineer and mining material merchant located in Belmont, Bulawayo. It was an associated company to Samuel Osborn & Co Ltd, and a distributor for Samuel Osborn (S.A.) (Pty) Ltd.

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Rhodesian Colas Products Ltd’s factories and offices were located on Lytton Road, Salisbury. The business was a manufacturer of bitumen emulsifiers and asphalt. The name was derived in 1924 from the words “COLd” and “ASphalt”, referring to a pioneering cold bitumen emulsion. Other processes included COLACID, COLASMIX and COLASTAK.

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  The Car Mart (Rhodesia) (Pvt) Ltd was located in Bulawayo. The holding company was formed in 1954 when The Car Mart Ltd, the Austin distributors for London, accquired Proctor’s Garage Ltd, Broken Hill, and Neill Motors Ltd, Bulawayo, and their respective branches.  

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The Asbestos Refining Co Rhodesia (Pvt) Ltd was located in Bulawayo. The business produced spinning and asbestos cement grades and fibres for consumer products. The company was a subsidiary of Griqualand Exploration & Finance Co Ltd. In 1959 the shares and assets of the company were purchased by Asbestos Refining Co. (Pty)…

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  Pickering & Co was located at 87B Lonrho House on Main Street, Bulawayo. The business were clearing agents providing custom agent and freight forwarding services.

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L M Ericsson Telephone Co (Pty) Ltd was located in Bulawayo. It was an agency of L. M. Ericsson, Sweden. In 1958, due to the increasing emphasis on foreign sales, L M Ericsson formed L M Ericsson Telephone Co (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, to replace it’s previous sales agency system. At…

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