Spies at Work, Appendix 1: Companies Supporting the League

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==Companies Making Donations or Subscribing to the Economic League and/or with a Director on the League's Central Council 1975-1989==
This is a list of slightly more than 600 companies known to have been connected with the Economic League in the last twenty years. Of these about 400 paid a subscription or made a donation to the League while the remainder are known to have had a director who has been on the Central Council of the Economic League.
The list has been compiled from reliable sources including "Labour Research" and "State Research", which obtained their information from the annual reports of the companies making donations. Some were published by World in Action and the Observer. Others were taken from internal documents in the author's possession.
The details of directorships are taken from the company records of The Economic League Co. Ltd.
After 1988 a number of companies claimed to have broken their links with the League in some way or another and others qualified their support for the League. Such claims were usually worded cautiously, and sometimes in a downright misleading way. Amec, for example, told one council with whom it was entering a £20m contract, that it did not subscribe to the Economic League but did use the services of The Services Group.
This is not to suggest that all such claims are merely public relations exercises. It does however suggest that some companies were less than frank in their response to straight questions.
It is also known that some companies employed indirect methods of making payments to the League: Boots for example used the British United Industrialists, others have made payments via a solicitor's and at least one, British Leyland, handled its contacts with the League through a small and little-known subsidiary.
A very brief comparison of this list with the "Times 1000" for 1986 reveals some interesting facts: six of the top ten, twenty of the top fifty and thirty-seven of the top one hundred UK companies occur in this list. Together in 1986 these companies alone employed more than 2.1 million people. The list also includes: 9 of the top 50 investment trusts, 10 of the top fifty life insurance companies and 10 of the top fifty non-life insurance companies.
Companies marked with a "+" are those which have a director in common with the Economic League.
*600 Group
*A Anderson & Sons
*A Longworth & Sons+
*A E Symes
*A Monk & Co
*APCM+
*Acme Signs and Displays
*Acrian (UK)+
*Addle Shaw & Latham
*AEGT Pension Trust+
*Air UK+
*Air Holdings+
*Airwork+
*Akroyd and Smithers+
*Alcan Enfield Alloys
*Alder & Mackay
*Alexanders Discount+
*Alldee Nominees+
*Allied Lyons+
*Allmay & Layfield
*Alpine Double Glazing
*AMEC Construction Services
*Amey Roadstone
*Anchor Chemical Co+
*Anthony Gibbs Holdings
*Arbuthnot & Savory Mills+
*Ardon Contractors
*Ashton Court (Sale)+
*Associated Engineering
*Associated Fisheries
*Augustus Barnett
*Automotive Products
*Avenfield (Pty) Limited - South Africa+
*BAC
*Babcock Power Engineering
*Babcock & Wilcox+
*Baker Perkins Holdings
*Balfour Beatty Construction
*Bankers I T+
*Barclays Bank
*Barfab Reinforcement
*Barrow Hepburn Group
*Bass Charington
*BAT Industries
*Battle Farm Lands+
*Baxter Bros (1920)+
*Baxter Fell International
*Beagle Nominees+
*BEC
*Beecham Products
*Benson Turner
*Berkley Hambro Property
*Bernard Sunley
*BICC
*Biggs Wall
*Birmid Qualcast
*Blue Circle Group+
*Boddingtons
*Bomag (GB)
*Border & Southern Stockholders IT+
*Bovis Construction
*Bowater+
*BPB Industries
*Bradford & District Newspapers
*Braithewaite Engineering
*Brammer
*Brewers Society
*Bricomin Farms+
*Bricomin Investments+
*Bridon
*Bridon+
*Brintons
*Britannic Finance Trust+
*British Telecom
*British Manufacture & Research
*British Engine
*British Commonwealth Investment Co+
*British Ropes
*British Leyland
*British & Commonwealth (Group Management)+
*British & Commonwealth Shipping Co (Hotel & Travel Enterprise)+
*British & Commonwealth Shipping Co Plc+
*British Air Transport (Holdings)+
*British & Commonwealth Shipping Co (Aviation)+
*British And South American Steam Navigation+
*British and Commonwealth
*British Vita Co
*British United Industrialists+
*British Aluminium
*British Investment Trust Bullock Construction
*Brocklehurst Mews Maintenance+
*Brooke Bond Leibig
*Brooklands House+
*Bryant Construction
*Brymo Steel
*Building Joinery Components+
*Building Employers Federation
*Burmah Oil
*C T Bowring
*CBI Management Education Committee+
*Caledonia Investments+
*Cambrian Soft Drinks+
*Cape Industrial Products
*Cape Boards
*Capital and Countries Property
*Carlton Mansions+
*Carpets International Clayton Dewandre
*Cawoods Holdings
*Cayzer Irvine Shipping+
*Cayzer Ltd+
*Cayzer Gartmore Investments+
*Cayzer Irvine (Investments)+
*Cayzer Irvine (Property Management)+
*Cayzer Irvine (Group Finance)+
*Cayzer Irvine (Insurance Management)+
*Cayzer Irvine & Co+
*Cayzer Trust -+
*Cedar IT
*CEGB
*Cementmakers Federation
*Centre for Policy Studies+
*Chanton Engineering
*Chapel Court (Ashton)+
*Charles Stephenson Funeral Directors
*Charlton Leslie Construction
*Chartered Trust Agency+
*Chevron Foods+
*Chloride Industrial Batteries
*Christian Coull Consultants+
*Chritian Salvessen PLC+
*Chrysler UK
*Ciba Geigy
*City National Investment Trust+
*Clan Line Investments+
*Clan Line Steamers -+
*Clanair+
*Clos-o-mat (Great Britain)+
*Clothing & Allied Products Industrial Training Board
*Clyde Nominees+
*Coalite
*Coates Bros & Co
*Coldflow
*Commercial Union+
*Commercial Street Nominees+
*Compair Broomwade
*Compaq Computer Corporation
*Concrete
*Consolidated Goldfields+
*Consumer & Video Holdings+
*Continental Union Agricultural Holdings+
*Continental Union Finance Co+
*Cookson Group
*Corals Racing
*Costain (UK)
*Courage+
*Courthaulds
*Coutts & Co
*Crabtree Vickers
*Crane Fruehauf Trailers
*Crewkerne Investments+
*Dalepak
*Daniel Thwaites
*Davidsons Ltd
*De La Rue
*Dean Craft Fahey+
*Delta Enfield Cables
*DFM Holdings+
*Dickinson Robinson Group
*Distillers
*Dock & Airport Services+
*Dominion General Trust
*Doncasters Shefield(Inco Europe)
*Donkin & Co+
*Dow Scandia
*Dowsett Engineering Construction
*Dowty Communications
*Drake & Skull Holdings
*Drayton Japan Trust+
*Drummonds Branch Nominees+
*Dundee Office Royal Bank Of Scotland Nominees+
*Dunlop
*Dupont Plastic Gas Pipes
*Duritas Trustees+
*E C Stenson
*Eagle Star
*East Lancashire Papers Group
*Eastman Kitchens
*Edbro (Holdings)
*Edgar Allen Balfour
*Edifice Trustees+
*Edinburgh West End Nominees+
*Edmund Nutall
*Electra IT+
*Engineering Employers Federation+
*English and New York Trust
*English Electric
*English China Clays
*Equity Capital Trustees+
*Evans Medical
*Ever Ready Holdings+
*Everards Breweries+
*Faber Prest Holdings
*Fairclough Construction
*Fairey Co
*Fairey Group
*Fairport Engineering
*Fasco
*Federated Employers' Press+
*Field Tanksteamship Co+
*Field Industries Ltd - Zimbabwe+
*Field Industries Africa Ltd - South Africa+
*Field Aviation Co Ltd - Canada+
*Fitch Lovell
*Flemming Technology IT+
*Flemming Far East Trust+
*Fluor
*Ford Motor Company
*Foreign And Colonial IT+
*Formica
*Forthaven+
*Forward Chemicals+
*Fraser House commercial Developments+
*Frederick Robinson+
*Freemantle & Co+
*French Kier
*Friends Provident Life Office+
*Frobisher Gardens Maintenance+
*Fry Construction
*Furness Withy & Co
*G Percy Trentham
*GKN+
*Gallagher
*Galliford Sears
*Gartmore Investment Management+
*Gartmore Securities+
*GEC
*Geest Holdings
*General Combustion
*Geoffrey Osborne
*George Wimpey
*Gerrard & National Discount
*GES
*Gibson Crude Oil Purchasing Co Ltd - Canada+
*Gillinghm Woodcraft
*Glasgow Stockholders
*Glass Bulbs
*Glaxo
*Goldsmiths Research Foundation+
*Gordon Street Nominees+
*Grand Metropolitan Contract Services
*Greater Manchester Economic Development Corporation+
*Greater Manchester Residuary Body+
*Green's Economiser+
*Greenall Whitley+
*Greene King
*Greene King+
*Greenhalls+
*Group 4 Total Security
*Guardian IT
*Guardian Royal Exchange
*H & J Quick
*H J Heinz
*Hall Engineering (Holdings)+
*Halmatic+
*Hampton's Wholefoods+
*Hanley Economic Building Society+
*Hanson Engineering
*Hanson Trust
*Hardys & Hanson
*Harlands of Hull Hambros
*Harry Neal
*Harrytown Hall Maintenance+
*Hartwells of Oxford
*Hawker Siddeley+
*Hazleton UK
*Head Office Nominees+
*Hector Whaling+
*Helix
*Hepworth Ceramic Holdings Henry Barratt
*Herbert Ferryman
*Hereford English Wine
*Hewden Stuart Crane
*Hiram Walker & Sons (Sctl)
*Hogg Robinson+
*Homfray & Co+
*Hotpoint
*Houlder Bros
*Howard Doris Construction
*Howson Algraphy
*Huntaven Properties Ltd+
*Hunters Foods
*Huntfield Trust Ltd+
*Hunting & Son+
*Hunting Firecracker+
*Hunting Associated Survey Holdings+
*Hunting Associated Industries+
*Hunting Group+
*Hunting (Eden) Tankers+
*Hunting Petroleum (America)+
*Hunting Survey & Photographic+
*Hunting Painting Contractors+
*Hunting International (Holdings)+
*Hunting Gibson+
*Hunting Investments+
*Hunting Surveys and Consultants+
*Hunting Steamship Co+
*Hunting Aviation Management+
*Hunting Engineering Management+
*Hunting Associates Limited - Canada+
*Hunting Composites+
*Hunting Oil & Gas+
*Hunting Holdings+
*Huntley & Sparks (Lands)+
*Huntley Cook & Co+
*Huwood
*Hyphen Fitted Furniture
*ICI
*Ilford
*Imperial Group
*Inner Guard
*Institute of Personnel Management+
*Institutional Fund Managers+
*Insulated Buildings Ltd Interiors
*Intercosmetics+
*International Shipping Information Services+
*International Westminster Bank+
*Iron Trades Insurance+
*J H Fenner & Co
*J Bibby & Sons+
*J R Govett
*James Longley
*James Galt & Co
*James Neill Holdings+
*James Walker
*Jenks & Cattell+
*John Jones Excavations
*John E Wiltshire
*John Mowlem
*John I Jacobs
*John Laing Construction
*John Wilmott Group
*Johnson Matthey
*Jonas Woodhead & Sons
*Jones Laing Wootton
*K Wool Products
*Keeton & Sons
*King Line+
*King Investigation Bureau
*Kingsway Nominees+
*Kleinwort Overseas IT+
*Kleinwort Charter IT+
*Kleinwort Benson Lonsdale+
*Komatsu UK
*Kyle Stewart
*LDC Trust Management+
*Lake View IT+
*Lamson Industries
*Law Debenture Overseas+
*Law Debenture Trust Corporation PLC+
*Law Debenture Intermediary Corporation+
*Law Debenture Corporation PLC+
*Laycock Engineering Lloyds Bank+
*Lead Industries Group
*Legal and General
*Lincoln Woodworking
*Lindsay Oil Refinery
*Lindustries
*Lister Peter
*Lloyds
*Lombard Street Nominees+
*London & Southhampton Stevedoring Co.+
*London-American Maritime Trading+
*London Brick Co
*London Prudential IT
*Low & Bonar
*Lyon & Lyon
*M & G
*M & G Group+
*M J Gleeson
*Magnet Joinery
*Magnet Metals
*Main Gas Appliances
*Maintenance Chemicals+
*Management Search International+
*Manchester Chamber of Commerce+
*Manor House Hotel (Castle Combe) -+
*Markham Systems
*Marlar International+
*Marley Group
*Marples International Holdings
*Massey Ferguson
*Matthew Hall Engineering
*Matthew Clark & Son+
*Maxwell UK
*McCarthy & Stone
*McGlauchlin & Harvey
*McKenhie Bros
*Meldrum Investment Trust PLC+
*MEPC+
*Metal Box+
*Midland Bank+
*Miller Buckley
*Miller Construction
*Mineral Drilling International+
*Missouri Maintenance+
*MJN Newcastle
*Mono Pumps
*Morgan Crucible+
*Morgan Grenfell+
*Mount Nelson Hotel+
*National & Commercial+
*National Westminster Bank+
*Neepsend
*NEI
*Nestle & Co
*Nicholas Lane Nominees+
*Nico Construction
*North British Hire Purchase+
*Northern Petroleum and Bulk Freight+
*Northern Engineering Estates
*Norwest Holst
*Norwich Union Insurance
*Norwood Estates (Stretford)+
*Ocean Transport & Trading+
*Ondawel (GB)+
*Oxford University Appointments Committee+
*P C Harrington Contracts
*P Hassall
*Parkfield Jersey+
*Pauline Hyde & Associates+
*Pegler-Hattersley
*Penrith Door Co
*Pentland IT
*Phoenix Steel Tube
*Phoenix Assurance+
*Picadilly Nominees+
*Pilkingtons
*Plaxtons (Scarboro)
*Plessey Group+
*Plessey Group
*Pochins
*Portland Group Factors+
*Powell-Piggott
*Powell Duffryn
*Power Steels
*Powers Samas
*Precision Cast Parts Corporation
*Press Offshore
*Project Direction Ltd+
*Provincial Insurance
*Ptarmigan (Nove Leather)
*R & M Fabrications
*R R & J Willan+
*R W Willan (Estates)+
*R M Douglas Construction
*R B Property Nominees+
*Racal Guardall (Sctl)
*Radio Forth+
*Rank Hovis McDougall Royal Insurance
*Ransome Sims & Jefferies
*RCO Contract Services
*Readicut International+
*Reckitt & Colman
*Record Ridgeway+
*Redhill Aerodrome+
*Redhill Flying Club+
*Redland Engineering
*Regent Street Nominees+
*Reliance Security Services
*Ruberoid
*Rexodan+
*Rexshire Ltd+
*Richard Costain
*Rockware Group+
*Rockwell (UK)+
*Roland Long Associates+
*Ross Foods
*Rosser & Russell Building Services
*Royal Bank of Scotland & Prosper Nominees+
*Royal Insurance
*Royal Bank of Scotland+
*Royal Bank of Scotland Group+
*Royal Bank of Scotland (Aberdeen) Nominees+
*Royal Bank of Scotland (Central Branch, Glasgow) Nominees+
*Rudolf Wolff & Co+
*Rush & Tomkins Group+
*Samuel Webster Breweries
*Samuel Jones
*Sanderson Walker & Sons (Sctl)
*Sanderson Kayser
*Sankey Sugar+
*SBAC (Farnborough)+
*Scandura
*Schreiber
*Scotcom Nominees+
*Scottan Investments+
*Scottish Council for Development and Industry +
*Scottish Lion Insurance Co+
*Scottish Lion Investments+
*Scottish National Trust+
*Scottish & Newcastle Breweries
*Scottish United Investors+
*Scottish Shire Line+
*Scottish lion Holdings+
*Scottish Tanker Co.+
*Sea Lion Investments+
*Seabridge Shipping+
*Seapool+
*Secdee Nominees+
*Second Industrial Trust+
*Securites Limited+
*Senior Engineering
*Sheffield Testing Works+
*Shell Petrol+
*Shell
*Shephard Hill
*Shepherd Neame+
*Sinclair & Collis
*Singer & Friedlander+
*Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons
*Sir Alfred McAlpine
*Skefco
*SKF (UK)
*Slough Estates
*Slough Newspaper Printers
*Smiths Warehousing Group+
*Smiths Industries
*Society of British Aerospace Companies -+
*South Wales Electricity Board+
*Spath Holme+
*Spear & Jackson
*Spirax-Sarco+
*St Vincent Street Nominees+
*St Mary Axe Holdings+
*Stag Line+
*Standard Broadcasting Corporation of Canada+
*Standard Continuous
*Staveley Industries+
*Sterling Industries+
*Stockbridge Engineering Steels
*Stockholders IT
*Stone Platt Industries
*Storreys of Lancaster
*Streed Ltd
*Sulzer (UK)
*Sun Alliance+
*Swan Hunter Group
*Symbol Biscuits
*Symmonds English Wine+
*Syntex Pharmaceuticals
*T C Harrison
*T S Overy
*Tabuchi Electrical UK
*Tanganika Concessions
*Tanks Consolidated IT+
*Tarmac Construction
*Taskman Security Services
*Tate & Lyle+
*Taylor Woodrow
*Thermal Syndicate
*Thirsk Racecourse Ltd+
*Thomas Borthwick & Sons
*Thomas Grice & Co Tallent Engineering
*TI Domestic Appliances
*Tilbury Contracting
*Total Oil Marine
*Touche, Remnant & Co+
*Touche, Remnant Holdings+
*TR Industrial & General Trust PLC+
*TR North American Investment Trust PLC+
*TR Technology Investment Trust PLC+
*TR City of London Trust+
*TR Pacific Basin IT+
*TR Holdings (1974)+
*TR Natural Resources+
*TR Trustees Corporation+
*TR Australia Investment Trust PLC+
*Trafalgar House+
*Tragen Finance+
*Trans Oceanic Trust+
*Transmanche Link
*Transport Development Group
*Travel Savings (I)+
*Travel Savings+
*Travel Savings (XII)+
*Trico Folberth
*Tube Investments+
*Tube Investments
*Turner & Newall
*Turner & Newall+
*Turriff Corporation
*Twill
*Tysons (Contractors)
*Tytherington Court+
*Union Castle Mail Steamship Co +
*Union Street Nominees+
*Union castle Line+
*Union Discount Co of London
*Uniroyal Englebert Tyres
*United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution+
*United Molasses
*Urquhart Engineering+
*Valour Heating
*Varian TEM
*Vaux Breweries
*Venesta International Components
*Vickers Instrument Co
*Vickers
*Victor International Plastics
*W & T Avery
*W H Smith Electrical Engineers Group
*Wadkin
*Wagon Industrial Holdings+
*Walsall Conduits
*Walter Lawrence
*Walter Llewelyn & Sons
*Wandel & Halterman & Co
*Wardle Court+
*Wardley Group
*Weir Group
*West George Street Nominees+
*Western Royal Bank of Scotland Nominees+
*Westments+
*Westminster Contractors
*Westminster Bank+
*Westminster Press
*Wests Group International
*WGI
*Whalley House+
*Whinney Murray & Co+
*Whitbread+
*Wilkinson Match
*Willan Home Improvements+
*Willan Bros (Sale)+
*Willan Properties+
*Willans of Macclesfield+
*William H Herbert+
*William Baird & Co
*William Latimer & Co+
*William Boulton Group+
*William Jackson
*Williams and Glyns+
*Wilmot Breeden+
*Wilsons Breweries
*Wm Teacher Ltd+
*Woodhunt Property+
*Woolsey house+
*Worthington Simpson
*Y J Lovell Construction
*Yorkshire Bank PLC+
*Yorkshire Post Newspapers+
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