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Jaguar Heritage organised an event in cooperation with BAE Systems this month to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Swallow Sidecar Company - Sir William Lyons' first business and the forerunner of today's Jaguar Cars Limited.
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2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Clarks factory in Paisley. To celebrate this milestone, the company Coats & Clarks have created a website which contains an interactive timeline and a space to encourage people to share their sewing stories.
with this great infographic:
A History of British Holidaymaking in Numbers brought to you by Thomas Cook holidays
Rather nicely, they also provided the html code for the infographic to allow other people to embed the image on their website which is what I've done here. I found it via this site which notes that the facts and information came from their in-house archivist.
In 2013, the co-operative will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the CWS - the Co-operative Wholesale Society. A new business history of the group is planned for publication then and a team has been put together to research the company
There is more information in a leaflet here.
