Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd is a private company owned by

Royal Dutch Shell Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New Yo ...

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

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. *Arnold J. Cohen Stuart 1 July 1907 – 1 January 1915 *• Marcus Samuel (first Viscount Bearsted) 1 July 1907 – 21 June 1921 *(Sir)

Robert Waley Cohen Sir Robert Waley Cohen, KBE (8 September 1877 – 27 November 1952) was a British industrialist and prominent leader of Anglo-Jewry. Early life He came from a prominent Jewish family, being the grandson of Jacob Waley and a cousin of Arthur ...

1 July 1907 – 19 December 1928 *•

Henri Wilhelm August Deterding Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, KBE (19 April 1866 – 4 February 1939) was one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and was its general manager for 36 years, from 1900 to 1936, and was also chairman of the combined Royal D ...

1 July 1907 – 31 December 1936 * Hendrikus Colijn 1 January 1921 – 31 March 1922 * Sir Andrew Agnew 1 October 1922 – 31 December 1922 *Ir. Jean Baptist August Kessler 1 November 1922 – 30 June 1948 *• Frederick Godber 1 February 1929 – 12 July 1946 (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 Francis John Stephens Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough, (2 December 1860 – 17 January 1947) was a British civil servant and solicitor. Hopwood was born in Bayswater, London, the son of a barrister. He was educated at King Edward VI School, ...

19 July 1946 - November 1955 (second Lord Southborough)

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