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Anglo-Persian Oil Company

LC control no.n 82206917
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingAnglo-Persian Oil Company
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See alsoSuccessor: Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
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Beginning date1909
Ending date1935
Associated countryGreat Britain Iran
LocatedLondon (England)
Field of activityPetroleum industry and trade
AffiliationBurmah Oil Company British Petroleum Company
Found inIts Notice of general meeting, report of the directors and balance sheet to ... 31st Mar. 1923: t.p. (Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited)
Wikipedia, viewed 27 September 2018: under BP (the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was incorporated on 14 April 1909 as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company)
Grace's Guide to British Industrial History website, viewed 27 September 2018 (Anglo-Persian Oil Co; of Britannic House, Moorgate, London; oil explorer, refiner and supplier of motor fuel; during World War 1, the British government seized the assets of German-owned companies and, having acquired the British Petroleum Co, the Public Trustee sold it to Anglo-Persian in 1917; in 1922 APOC began marketing motor spirits through British Petroleum, and the "BP" trademark, having previously done so through another company)
DueDil website, viewed 27 September 2018: under Company number 00102498 (incorporated on 14 Apr 1909 as Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited; name changed to Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Limited on 28 Jun 1935, then to The British Petroleum Company Limited on 17 Dec 1954; re-registered as The British Petroleum Company P.L.C. on 04 Jan 1982; name changed to BP Amoco P.L.C. on 31 Dec 1998, then to BP P.L.C. on 01 May 2001)
Associated languageeng