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The ‘Irrawaddy Flotilla Company’ (IFC) was a passenger and cargo ferry company, which operated services on the Irrawaddy River in Burma, The IFC was Scottish-owned, and was managed by '[[P Henderson & Company]]' from Glasgow. The IFC operated from 1865 until the late 1940s. At its peak in the late 1920s, the IFC fleet was the largest fleet of river boats in the world, consisting of over 600 vessels carrying some 8-9 million passengers and 1¼ million tons of cargo a year <ref name=Wiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrawaddy_Flotilla_Company Wikipedia “Irrawaddy Flotilla Company” ]; Retrieved 15 Oct 2017</ref>

The company Company had its origins in the [[East India Company| East India Company’s]] preparations for the [[2nd Burma War|2nd Anglo-Burmese War]] in 1852. The fleet originally consisted of four steamers and four flats ''(as barges were known in south Asia) ''. They The Company was Scottish-owned, and was managed by '[[P Henderson & Company]]' from Glasgow until May 1864 when the assets were sold in May 1864 to ‘[[Todd, Finlay & Co]]’ who already owned the ‘[[Burma Steam Tug Co]]’<ref name=Wiki/>. The agreement stated that the fleet must sail twice a month between [[Rangoon]] and [[Thayetmyo]] and that it must leave [[Rangoon]] within 24 hours of the mail ship arriving from [[Calcutta]]. By Jan 1865, the costs were much higher than expected so ‘[[Todd, Finlay & Co]]’ floated a new company' <ref name =YA10>“Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compiled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entry YA10 page ....</ref>.