He might not be in Rhodes" employ, but the railway contract and a hundred cartage routes depended upon this man.
He joined his father's business of railway contracts at an early age.
Despite losing the railway contract to the British, Empain stayed on in Egypt.
The Liberals were returned to power in 1900, with the railway contract being a major issue in the election.
Sir John A. Macdonald's government fell in 1872 due to corruption in railway contracts.
He was heavily criticized later in his political career for accepting compensation in return for directing railway contracts to specific contractors.
He started Pat Burns' career by giving him a series of contracts for provisioning food for the railway contract.
In 1872, he was forced into liquidation after a ruinous settlement with the Romanian government on account of unfulfilled railway contracts.
Between 1846 and 1855 the firm carried out many large railway contracts both at home and abroad, including:
Some of the Mistris did major railway contracts during 1860-1940 in British India.