Marine engineering company based in Sunderland and Wallsend-on-Tyne, established in 1865. The company was known to still be active in 1961.

The East Midlands Gas Board was established on 1st May 1949 as part of the nationalised gas industry, reporting the Ministry of Fuel and Power. It covered Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. On 31st December 1972 it would be dissolved and became part the British Gas Corporation.

Manchester University was the popular name used for the Victoria University of Manchester, constituted in 1904. Manchester University emerged from the federal Victoria University, which included colleges in Liverpool and Leeds alongside Owens College in Manchester. In 1900 the colleges of the Victoria University separated and in 1904 Owens College was reconstituted as the Victoria University of Manchester, though it was often known simply known as Manchester University, or Owens. In 2004 Manchester University, under its formal name the Victoria University of Manchester, combined with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) to become known as The University of Manchester.