Information Category | 24-12-07 01:16 GMT | Posted by Ian Chicken

Previous Company Names and affiliates

1. The Falmouth, Gibralter and Malta Telegraph Company 1869.
2. The Marseilles, Algiers and Malta Telegraph Company.
3. The Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Company 1868.
4. The British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company.

John Pender

John Pender formed the The Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Company on the 18th May 1868 to lay the cable from Malta to
Alexandria

John Pender.
 founder of the Cable & Wireless group

 He then formed his next company in 1869 this being The Falmouth, Gibralter and Malta
 Telegraph Company.
 They laid the cable chain for England to India via Gibralter and 
 Portugal. The company completed its work in 1870.

The British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company was formed to provide the
final links through to India.
The Marseilles, Algiers and Malta Telegraph Company

The Eastern Telegraph Company was formed in 1872, this was a merger of this group of companies.
Pender needed to reorganise the companies to form one single entity. At its height it was the worlds largest, having over 150000 miles of cable to deal with.

John Pender became its Chairman and stayed in the post until his death in 1896.

Company logo, Note middle section this became the Cable and Wireless Logo when it was formed

This was busy period for the amalgamation, laying new routes and increasing the size of the existing routes around the world. It duplicated cables on the busy routes.

From this point E.T.C. formed numerous coompanies and laid new cables to link up with other companies that had formed and to existing systems already in place.

These cables were far and wide, covering places like Moscow, France, Malta, Cyprus, West Africa, The Caribbean and Cape Verde.