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<br>In 1946 Martin & Company merged with [[Burn & Co Ltd]] to form '''Martin, Burn & Company ''' <ref name =WB104/>.
'' '''See separate pages for details where railways were involved''' ''
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'''Martin & Company'''
Initially an engineering company, established in 1892 by Thomas Aquin Martin (previously Manager of [[Walsh, Lovatt & Company]]), Harold Martin, Rajendranath Mookerjee and C W Walsh; located at Jackson House, [[Calcutta]]. The company is in some records named the London based '''T A Martin & Co. ''' <ref name =WB104>“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 WB104 page ....</ref>.
The business developed rapidly as a [[Managing Agencies|Managing Agent]] and had interests in light railways, collieries, steel works, docks, engineering works, manganese mines, tea, timber, electric supply companies, cement and allied undertakings. The company built jute mills and had further large contracts for water and drainage works. The building department was responsible for the design and construction of many important commercial and public buildings and private residences <ref name =WB104/>.
By 1926 they also had offices in Bombay, Karachi and Dhanbad and a works at Kidderpore. In 1940 they were shown in trade directories as merchants; building contractors and Agents for railways, tea and engineering companies with offices at 12 Mission Row, Calcutta and in Lahore and New Delhi.
==Railway Business Interests==
The ‘Bengal ''' Bengal District Road Tramways Company’ Company ''' was promoted in 1889 by ‘'''[[Walsh, Lovett & Company]]’ ''' (Martin & Company from 1892), of Calcutta, to construct tramways from [[Howrah]] to [[Amta]] and [[Howrah]] to [[Sheakhala]], using portions of existing roads.
Two companies were in fact registered in 1895, one for each line, and in 1899 the titles became [[Howrah-Amta Light Railway|Howrah-Amta Light Railway Company]] and [[Howrah-Sheakhalla Light Railway|Howrah-Sheakhala Light Railway Company]], being then subject to the Railways Act. The District Boards of [[Howrah]] and [[Hooghly]] guaranteed a net profit of 4 per cent per annum on the capital expended on the Amta and Sheakhala lines respectively, excess profits being shared, and the Howrah Municipal Commissioners allowed free use of their roads for 20 years and thereafter levied a track rent. ''<br>See seperate pages page '''[[Howrah-Amta Light Railway]]''' <br>and page '''[[Howrah-Sheakhalla Light Railway]]''' ''
==Martin’s Light Railways=='''[[Martin's Light Railways]]'''(MLR ) ''[[Martin's Light Railways|see for further details]]''. Owned , owned by Messrs ‘Martin & Co’. <br>From 1897 onwards operated several disparate Narrow Gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) light railways in the Gangetic plain, from [[Calcutta]] in the east to [[Delhi]] in the west. '' <br>See page '''[[Martin's Light Railways]]''' for details ''
==Selling Agents in India==
==Other known Business Interests==
*'''[[Kulti Iron Works Railway| Kulti Iron Works]]'''. An iron works originally the ‘Barakar Iron Works Co’, 1875-79; taken over by the Government of India, 1881. Sold later to the ‘Bengal Iron and Steel Co.’ with ‘Martin & Co.’ as [[Managing Agencies |Managing Agent]] from 1892 until 1919 when a new company ‘Bengal Iron Co’ acquired the business (Later in 1936 becoming ‘’Indian Iron and Steel Co.’
*'''[[Calcutta Storm Water Construction Railway]]'''. Between 1898 and 1905 the remodelling of the storm water outfall for [[Calcutta]] was undertaken by ‘Martin & Co.’
