27 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 28

Company Notes

By CUSTOS THE Stock Exchange has ne ve „ r before had such a knock as the or t , delivered by Mr. Thorneycroft la y week. The News Chronicle had headline '12,000,000,000 City......

The Thorneycroft Slump

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHEN I surveyed the wholesale slaughter of security values on the morning after Mr. Thorneycroft's raid—there has never been such a slump before in a trade......