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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 505

Consolidated Diesel Engine Manufacturers Ltd., £1 shares, fuly paid, 191(3), no.894, signed by George Carels as Director, brown, folds, fine to very fine. Estimate £ 100 Registered 1912 to acquire the share capital of the Diesel Engine Co. Ltd. and half the share capital plus 1 share of the Usines Carels Freres S.A. Issued the same year in which director and inventor Dr. Rudolph Diesel mysteriously disappeared from the steamship Dresden on his way with Carels to attend a meeting of the company in London. Court order to wind up in 1914, struck off register 1929.

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