Charles Greenway was the man who really fashioned the company. It was as manager of a Scottish trading house in Bombay that he had first begun to deal in oil. The Scottish merchants associated with Burmah Oil asked him to assist in the beginning stages of Anglo-Persian, and within a year he was its managing director. He dominated the company for the next two decades. When he started, he was virtually a one-man band; by the time of his retirement, he presided over an integrated oil company, actively engaged throughout the world. Later in life, he became known as “Champagne Charlie” and was
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