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Stewarts and Lloyds of South Africa Limited

Stewarts and Lloyds of South Africa Limited

Salisbury

In 1898, British Company Lloyds and Lloyds decided to open two branches in South Africa. At the same time, British company A & J Stewart and Menzies was being represented in South Africa by Brown & McKenzie.

By 1903, seeing the need to consolidate their South African interests, the two companies amalgamated to form Stewarts & Lloyds ( South Africa) Limited and expand their branch network to include Bloemfontein, Durban, Port Elizabeth, East London and Johannesburg. By 1927, Stewart & Lloyds became a South African Company.

During the war years the company made shells at the Vereeniging works to support the war effort with many woman employed to fill the gaps left by men answering the call for military service.

In the 1980’s Dorbyl acquires the Stewarts & Lloyds group of companies some of which are sold off and the rest placed under the Dorbyl light and general banner. Stewarts & Lloyds trading remains a separate company in the Dorbyl stable. By the 1990’s, Robor Industrial Holdings (RIH), a Barloworld company enters into a joint venture with Dorbyl to run Stewarts & Lloyds Trading. Shortly thereafter RIH takes 100% control and renames the company Robor Stewarts & Lloyds.

In 2001, Barloworld state their intention to sell Robor Stewarts & Lloyds. Stockwell, a company of 15 years standing purchases Bloemfontein, Kimberley, Witbank, Rustenburg, Wadeville and Vereeniging branches to add to their current 10 nationwide branches. The Stewarts & Lloyds name is also purchased.

The company continues to trade today.

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Curling & Co. Ltd

Curling & Co. Ltd

Bulawayo

 

Curling & Co Ltd was an engineering company based in Bulawayo. Little more is known of this business.

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  • James Gavin

Haim Galante

Haim Galante

1890-1980

 

Haim Galante was an Italian Jew from Rhodes Island, Greece. In 1913, Isaac Simon Benveniste, who had established a furniture trade in Gatooma after he arrived in 1908, offered Galante and his friend Jacques Nissim Alhadeff a post in his furniture business in Chakari.

Another trader, Behor Leon established himself at Marandellas. Galante and Alhadeff would follow him there and then onto Gatooma where Galante would establish his own trading station.

On 10th January, 1922 he married Estrella Leon in Cape Town, South Africa. On 12th August, 1939, Galante was naturalised. Galante died in Harare, Zimbabwe 1980.

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  • James Gavin

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Postcards: Sheraton Harare Hotel

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Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited

Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited

Salisbury

 

The Netherlands Bank was founded in 1888 in Amsterdam as the Nederlandsche Bank en Credietvereeniging voor Zuid-Afrika (“Dutch Bank and Credit Union for South Africa”). In the same year the bank opened an office in Pretoria, South African Republic. In 1903 the company was renamed to Nederlandsche Bank voor Zuid-Afrika (“Dutch Bank for South Africa”). In 1906, the bank expanded and an office in London was opened.

The bank split in 1951, renaming its South African part as Nederlandse Bank in Suid-Afrika Beperk/Netherlands Bank of South Africa Limited which commenced commenced banking operations. In August 1967, these operations were sold to the Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia and in 1972 the company changed its name to Rhodesia Banking Corporation Limited in 1972, then Rhobank in 1979.

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Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited: Salisbury (Head Office)

Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited

Salisbury

Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited: Bulawayo

Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited

Bulawayo

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Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited: Ndola

Netherlands Bank of Rhodesia Limited

Ndola

Ford Motor Company of Rhodesia (PVT) Ltd

Ford Motor Company of Rhodesia (PVT) Ltd

Salisbury

Ford Motor Company of Rhodesia (Pvt.) Limited was a car, commercial vehicle and tractor manufacturer in Salisbury. The company was founded in 1961 as a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company of Canada. £1.5 million was invested in the construction of the plant.

Manufactured vehicles included the Anglia and Zephyr models, Thames Trader trucks and Fordson Dexta tractors.

After the unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965 Ford lost access to its export markets, so that production stagnated and Ford had to close in February 1967, just like BMC of Rhodesia a little later. In the same year Ford sold the remaining material stocks to the Rhodesian government and withdrew from the country.

The factory later became the Willowvale Motor Industries, or at times the Willowvale Mazda Motor Industries.

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