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Quiz question: which of these companies has never been nationalised: BP, the East India Company, Barclays Bank, Thomas Cook, Rolls-Royce?

#1 7:58pm Apr 29th 2012 via Twitter for Mac

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The answer to my quiz question (twitter.com/frankieroberto…)… BP was bought by Churchill and then gradually sold by Thatcher from 1979-1987.

#2 8:44pm Apr 29th 2012 via Twitter for Mac

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…The East India Company was nationalised after the Indian Mutiny, before being dissolved.

#3 8:45pm Apr 29th 2012 via Twitter for Mac

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…Thomas Cook was nationalised in 1948 as part of British Transport, and then sold in 1972 to Midland Bank. (I didn't know this)

#4 8:47pm Apr 29th 2012 via Twitter for Mac

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…Rolls-Royce was nationalised in 1971 by Edward Heath. The car business was sold to Vickers, the rest sold by Thatcher in 1987.

#5 8:50pm Apr 29th 2012 via Twitter for Mac

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…that just leaves Barclays Bank, which rejected bail-out money from the British Government, and was instead bailed-out by the US, via AIG.

#6 8:51pm Apr 29th 2012 via Twitter for Mac

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@blech the Government also owned and ran some breweries and pubs between 1916 and 1973: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Man…

#7 9:24pm Apr 29th 2012 via Twitter for Mac in reply to blech

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