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Pauling & Co. was a major British civil engineering contractor renowned chiefly for building the railways of Southern Africa. . ==History== Pauling & Co. was founded by George Craig Sanders Pauling〔Robert Brown and Anita McConnell, ‘Pauling, George Craig Sanders (1854–1919)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 28 April 2010 )〕 in 1894. Pauling had previously built railways since 1875, trading variously as Firbank, Pauling & Co., Pauling and Butler in South Africa and Rhodesia as well as in Greece, Puerto Rico, from Haifa to Damascus and in England as Pauling and Elliot. Whilst undertaking civil engineering projects in England his partnership with Elliot was dissolved in 1894 and he formed Pauling & Co. and completed this contracting work. By 1895 Pauling returned to South Africa and Rhodesia. Between 1900 and 1918 Pauling & Co. built hundreds of miles of railway in Rhodesia, Angola and Nyasaland and they were a major contributor to the development of the railways of Southern and Central Africa, including the greater part of Cecil Rhodes' unfinished Cape to Cairo Railway scheme. Having been restructured in 1931, Pauling & Co. entered into partnership with contractor John Watson Gibson〔Howard Gibson and Leo D'Erlanger, ‘Gibson, Sir John Watson (1885–1947)’, rev. Robert Sharp, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 28 April 2010 )〕 in 1933 forming Gibson and Pauling (Foreign) Ltd. in 1933 to build the Jebel Aulia Dam on the White Nile in Sudan. On the successful completion of the Jebel Aulia Dam, Gibson became managing director of Pauling & Co., a position he held until his death in March 1947. During the Second World War Paulings undertook construction work for the war effort including Royal Ordnance factories and they were one of the 25 principal civil engineering contractors to build the Phoenix concrete caissons that formed the breakwaters to the Mulberry harbours.〔Hartcup, p. 94〕 In 1946 Pauling & Co. were employed by United Africa Company to undertake ground clearance for the ill fated Groundnut scheme. In the 1970s and 1980s Paulings undertook civil engineering schemes in the Middle East, particularly in the United Arab Emirates and Oman . In 1976 they were awarded the Queen's Award for Industry for export. Companies House records that Pauling Ltd. was dissolved on 2 April 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pauling & Co.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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