Business Projects

Mapping the career of a businessman who was an “independent operator” and who left no substantial papers: the case of Sir R.W. Perks 1849-1934, Owen E Covick, Presented to the 2005 Conference of the Association of Business Historians, Glasgow, 27 – 28 May 2005

List of Companies/Company Promotions in which R.W. Perks (and/or the Fowler-Perks legal firm) were associated, up to 1912. (Summary information only). Compiled by Owen Covick. Most recently revised January 2025

R.W.Perks, C.T.Yerkes and private sector financing of urban transport infrastructure in London 1900-1907, Owen E Covick, Paper presented to the 2001 Conference of the Association of Business Historians, Portsmouth (UK), “Responses to Innovation”, 29 – 30 June 2001

R W Perks and the Barry Railway Company, Part 1: to early-1887, Owen E Covick, Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society, Volume 36 Part 2 No 202 July 2008, pages 65, 71-83

R W Perks and the Barry Railway Company, Part 2: enter R W Perks, Owen E Covick, Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society, Volume 36 Part 3 No 203 November 2008, pages 129, 141-152

R W Perks and the Barry Railway Company, Part 3: exit R W Perks, Owen E Covick, Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society, Volume 36 Part 4 No 204 March 2009, pages 1, 22-37

R W Perks and the Barry Railway Company, Part 4: conclusion, Owen E Covick, Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society, Volume 36 Part 5 No 205 July 2009, pages 65, 75-77

Watkin’s Struggle at the S.E.R. Board 1876–79, and R.W. Perks, Owen E Covick, Paper presented to a seminar at the Flinders Business School, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, May 2014

R.W. Perks, Sir Edward Watkin, and The Cranbrook Railway (a.k.a. “The Hawkhurst Branch”), Owen E Covick