POST OFFICE 18 YEARS LATE
WRONG NAME FOR LLOYD’S
LONDON, November 11
An envelope addressed to “Lloyd’s Coffee ‘House’ in the Royal Exchange” is exhibited in Lloyd’s Library. Mr. A. C. Dabos, F.S.A., addressing the British and North American Luncheon Club, at the Great Eastern Hotel, London, yesterday, explained its history. “Thn words ‘coffee house,' ” lie said, “were dropped from the title in IS 10. It took the Post Office until 1918 to find til at out. For 7S years after we bad dropped the words every official communication came addressed to ‘Lloyd’s Coffee House in the Royal Exchange.’ “At the end of 191 S some official discovered what our proper name was, and we have been addressed properly ever since.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1937, Page 11
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