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Anthony G Evans was President of Trafalgar House Real Estate, Inc., the U.S. commercial real estate development subsidiary of Trafalgar House Plc from 1985 - 1990. It owned the Cunard Line and the Marine Engineering division of John Brown & Company . PROPERTY Trafalgar house owned the The Ritz Hotel which they sold for 75 million Pounds in 1995 to David And Frederick Barclay PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT In 1988 Trafalgar House was involved in a joint development with British Aerospace (BAe) to redevelop the former Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield . In 1995 it bought the bomb-damaged site of the historic Baltic Exchange building, at 30 St Mary Axe , which had been severely damaged when the Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb nearby on 10 April 1992 . The building's former owner, the Baltic Exchange, was unable to bear the costs of fully restoring the building to English Heritage 's requirements and therefore it sold the building and the land to Trafalgar House. In 1998 they sold the site, with Planning Permission , for 81 million Pounds to Swiss Re . It is now occupied by the Gherkin, designed by Foster And Partners , (see 30 St Mary Axe ). SHIPPING Trafalgar House owned the Cunard Line . ENGINEERING Trafalgar House owned John Brown Engineering Ltd which built industrial Gas Turbine s. John Brown Engineering was the engineering remnent of the famous Shipbuilder John Brown & Company of Clydebank . BREAK UP Trafalgar House was taken over by the Norwegian company Kvaerner in 1996 for £904 million and Kavaerner moved its own Headquarters from Oslo to London . The name ''Trafalgar House'' was dropped; however the John Brown Engineering subsidiary was renamed Kvaerner John Brown. |
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