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Originally posted by Misterlondon
reply to post by FermiFlux
Yeah it seems a bit dodgy..
I work in the haulage industry the same as mr Barr and it is highly unlikely you can earn several billion pounds without being noticed..
What I find a little strange is a guy with access to that sort of money lives in a £200,000 house... Even if he doesn't flash his cash about, a £200k house is very modest when you understand the value of homes in the uk.. I know of studio apartments that cost more than that..
Barr said his girlfriend knew nothing of the offer: "I don't want her thinking I'm going crazy, do I?"
Originally posted by FatherLukeDuke
Hilarious, the trucker with £22bn to spare!
Barr said his girlfriend knew nothing of the offer: "I don't want her thinking I'm going crazy, do I?"
Mirror newspaper
No, Alan, we don't want your girlfriend thinking you are crazy. Though of course everyone else does.
I don't think Lord James will be showing his face much after being fooled by this clown...
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
But when you look more deeply into it, it looks like he may be only a spokesperson. A person whom represents or a go between.
Either that or he is sat on something that could not be used directly for reasons unknown.
Originally posted by Misterlondon
reply to post by Korg Trinity
You may be right, I never thought about it like that.. I'd like to know more about this mr Barr..
When I have a chance I will do a little research, or if you find anything in the meantime, and could post on here, would appreciate it..
A MIDDLEWICH businessman fears that the six-month closure of one of the major routes into the town could bankrupt his small haulage company. Booth Lane will shut in January between Cross Lane and Long Lane South as part of an essential £10million project to end flooding affecting more than 40 homes.
But Alan Barr, who runs BHP Transport in Cledford Lane, reckons the diversion route will cost him an extra £5,350 a week and has entered what he describes as a ‘David and Goliath’ battle with United Utilities. He said: “This will bankrupt us. United Utilities’ intransigence is just unbelievable. “These are conservative costs. My business doesn’t make £5,350 a week profit – I wish it did.
“They’ve got to compensate me or relocate me. You can’t do all this work unless you consider the implications to local business people.” Mr Barr, who employs 15 people, made his calculation based on the 40 journeys a day he says his employees make delivering containers to and from a depot in Winsford.
Originally posted by Misterlondon
reply to post by Korg Trinity
Good work!! Now the alarm bells are ringing a little.. How does this guy have access to billions of pounds??
Recently, Mr Stacey took part in multi-million dollar projects in the major new building shipyards of Korea, Japan and Singapore, and has previously held positions with Teekay Shipping (Australia) and BHP Transport Limited.
Known throughout the world as "the Big Australian," Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. (BHP) is Australia's largest commercial organization, with operations in 70 nations worldwide. In 1997, it accounted for about eight percent of Australia's total exports.
More than 95 percent of its annual revenues are derived from heavy industry, namely mining, steelmaking, and petroleum production. Though it got its start in mining, BHP's primary business since the early 20th century has been steel production.
This segment accounted for nearly 40 percent of revenues in 1996. Mining operations, including copper, iron ore, coal, manganese, titanium, and platinum production, contributed more than one-third of BHP's sales in the mid-1990s. Inaugurated in the 1960s, BHP's petroleum business accounted for about one-fifth of revenues. The company also had a relatively small service sector, constituting less than five percent of annual sales.
Late 19th-Century Foundation BHP owes its foundation to Charles Rasp, a boundary rider working in the early 1880s on the Mt. Gipps station near Silverton in New South Wales. As a boundary rider, Rasp patrolled the property, repairing fences and generally checking the property. The station was managed by George McCulloch. Rasp believed that a low broken-backed ridge on the property--the Broken Hill--contained argentiferous ores. He persuaded McCulloch and five others to form a syndicate for the purpose of testing the ridge.
The first shaft sunk proved disappointing and some of the original syndicate members sold their shares, but the core members decided to raise the capital necessary for further investigation by floating a public company; they issued a prospectus in 1885 in the name of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company. Almost simultaneously, news arrived of a significant silver strike. BHP shares rose sharply in value once it was announced that the company's first consignment of 48 tons of ore had realized 35,605 ounces of silver, worth nearly £7,500.
# Public Company # Incorporated: 1885
# Employees: 50,887
# Sales: A$19.8 billion (US$15.8 billion) (1996)
# Stock Exchanges:Australia London Frankfurt Tokyo New Zealand Zürich New York # SICs: 1011 Iron Ores; 3312 Blast Furnaces & Steel Mills; 3310 Blast Furnace & Basic Steel Products; 1020 Copper Ores; 1220 Bituminous Coal & Lignite Mining; 1221 Bituminous Coal/Lignite-Surface; 1310 Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas; 1422 Crushed & Broken Limestone; 1311 Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas; 1061 Ferroalloy Ores, Except Vanadium; 4410 Deep Sea Foreign Transportation of Freight I
Principal Subsidiaries: Aquila Steel Company Pty. Ltd.; Associated Airlines Pty. Ltd. (55%); Australian Iron and Steel Pty. Ltd.; Australian Manganese Co. Ltd.; Australian Wire Industries Pty. Ltd.; AWI Holdings Pty. Ltd.; BHP Aerospace & Electronics Pty. Ltd.; BHP Capital No 20 Pty. Ltd.; BHP Development Finance Pty. Ltd.; BHP Engineering International Pte. Ltd. (Singapore); BHP Engineering Malaysia Sdn. Bdn.; BHP Engineering Pty. Ltd.; BHP Finance Ltd.; BHP Finance (U.S.A.) Ltd.; BHP Finance Services Pty. Ltd.; BHP Financial Services (U.K.); Ltd.; BHP Holdings (U.S.A.) Inc.; BHP Information Technology Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia); BHP International Holdings Ltd. (Hong Kong); BHP Investment Holdings Ltd. (U.K.); BHP Iron Ore Ltd.; BHP Japan Pty. Ltd.; BHP Marine & General Insurances Pty. Ltd.; BHP Minerals Holdings Pty. Ltd.; BHP Minerals Norway Pty. Ltd.; BHP Minerals Zimbabwe Pty. Ltd.; BHP Nominees Pty. Ltd.; BHP Papua New Guinea Pty. Ltd.; BHP Petroleum International Pty. Ltd.; BHP Rail Products (Canada) Ltd.; BHP Rail Products Pty. Ltd.; BHP Refractories Ltd.; BHP Steel (AIS) Pty. Ltd.; BHP Steel Building Products (Guangzhou) Ltd. (China); BHP Steel Building Products (Shanghai) Ltd. (China); BHP Steel Building Products Vietnam Co. Ltd.; BHP Steel Canada Inc.; BHP Steel (JLA) Pty. Ltd.; BHP Stevedoring Pty. Ltd.; BHP Superannuation Investment Co. Pty. Ltd.; BHP Trading New Zealand Ltd.; BHP Transport Pty. Ltd.; Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty. Ltd.; John Lysaght (Australia) Pty. LTd.; Keithen Ltd.; NSW BHP Steel Ltd.; PT BHP Steel Indonesia (65%); Resources Insurances Pte. Ltd. (Singapore); Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company Pty. Ltd.; Tavela Ltd.; The World Marine & General Insurance PLC (U.K.); Bekaert-BHP Steel Cord Pty. Ltd. (50%); Elkem Mangan KS (Norway; 49%); Foster's Brewing Group Ltd. (36.6%); Koppers Australia Pty. Ltd. (50%); Orbital Engine Corporation Ltd. (25.1%); Samarco Mineracao SA (Brazil; 49%); Tubemakers of Australia Ltd. (49.4%).
Brief history of BHP BHP's rich and varied history began in a silver, lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia. One of the most lucrative deposits in the world at the time, it was later described in the London press as the 'best managed mine in the world'. In 1899, BHP leased an iron ore mine at Iron Knob in South Australia. Sixteen years later, in 1915, BHP ventured into steel making, commissioning its first steelworks at Newcastle, New South Wales. After World War I, BHP continued to diversify, forming a shipping fleet, as well as acquiring coal mines and additional reserves of iron ore and limestone. BHP also acquired companies that manufactured finished steel products.
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
So now.... have we found the identity of Foundation X? is Foundation X - The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd????
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by Korg Trinity
So now.... have we found the identity of Foundation X? is Foundation X - The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd????
Has there been any consideration of the fact that haulage firms are so ofter...how shall I put this?...Mobbed-up?