Lloyd's Coffee House and Related Names
Edward Lloyd (coffeehouse owner), founded Lloyd's Coffee House, a London meeting place for merchants and shipowners. Several institutions and companies, especially those involved in transport or insurance, were named after, or indirectly inspired by, Edward Lloyd or his (now defunct) coffee house:
- Lloyd's of London, or Lloyd's, a leading British insurance market
- Lloyd's of London (film), a 1936 film about this insurance market
- Lloyd's building, its headquarters
- Lloyd's Agency Network
- Lloyd's List, a website and 275-year-old daily newspaper on shipping and global trade
- Lloyd's MIU, a maritime information database
- Lloyd's Register, a ship classification and risk management organization
- Germanischer Lloyd, a classification society based in Germany
- Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former German shipping line, and several successor companies
- Hapag-Lloyd shipping line
- Hapag-Lloyd Airlines, Hapag-Lloyd Express, Hapag-Lloyd Flug, former German airline companies
- Lloyd Werft, a shipbuilding dockyard established by Norddeutscher Lloyd in Bremerhaven, Germany
- Lloyd (car), a former German automobile brand founded by Norddeutscher Lloyd
- Austrian Lloyd, a shipping line of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; a shipping management company of this name still exists
- Lloyd Triestino, Italian shipping line evolved from Austrian Lloyd
- Ungarische Lloyd Flugzeug- und Motorenfabrik, an Austro-Hungarian aircraft manufacturer of the Lloyd C.V and other aircraft
- Nedlloyd, a Netherlands shipping line, later merged into P&O Nedlloyd and now part of Maersk Line
- Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano (LAB Airlines) of Bolivia
- Lloyd Brasileiro, a former Brazilian shipping line
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Famous quotes containing the words lloyd, coffee, house, related and/or names:
“A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror—and they last longer.”
—David Lloyd George (1863–1945)
“Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
—Bible: New Testament, 2 Corinthians 5:1.
“Generally there is no consistent evidence of significant differences in school achievement between children of working and nonworking mothers, but differences that do appear are often related to maternal satisfaction with her chosen role, and the quality of substitute care.”
—Ruth E. Zambrana, U.S. researcher, M. Hurst, and R.L. Hite. “The Working Mother in Contemporary Perspectives: A Review of Literature,” Pediatrics (December 1979)
“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)