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Black Horse Limited. Black Horse Limited is a motor finance company based in the United Kingdom. It was formed in July 2001, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, but its origins can be traced back to 1922. The business should not be confused with Black Horse (originally Beehive and most recently Lloyds TSB) Life Assurance ...
Downlands Cancara. Park Row Leeds, West Yorkshire. Downlands Cancara (1 May 1975 - June 2006 [1]) was an English graded Trakehner stallion [2] famous for representing Lloyds Bank as the Black Horse in a long-running series of television adverts.
When Lloyds took over that bank in 1884, it continued to trade "at the sign of the black horse". [10] The green of the Lloyds Bank was adopted in the 1920s for added distinctiveness. [9] From 1884 to the 1920s, the black horse and the beehive were both used in cheques, until the beehive was dropped.
In September the same year, Lloyds TSB purchased Chartered Trust from Standard Chartered Bank for £627 million to form Lloyds TSB Asset Finance Division, which provides motor, retail and personal finance in the United Kingdom under the trading name Black Horse. [16] Lloyds TSB continued to take part in the consolidation, making a takeover bid ...
The Black Horse logo dates back to 1677 London when Humphrey Stockes adopted it as the sign for his shop. Stokes was a goldsmith and 'keeper of the running cashes', a banker. When Lloyds Bank took over his site in 1884 it kept the horse as its symbol. The National Bank acquired Southpac Investment Management in 1983. Five years later it bought ...
Fox, Fowler, and Company was the last commercial note-issuing bank in England and Wales, until it was bought out by Lloyds Bank in 1921. [1][2] Under the terms of the 1844 act, the bank lost the legal right to issue banknotes upon its merger with Lloyds, and the Bank of England became the sole note-issuing bank in England and Wales. [3]
Lloyds Bank filmed a section of their 2017 'By Your Side' advert alongside Victory with the famous black horse running by its port side, coincidentally Lloyds Bank was founded nearly a month after HMS Victory was launched in 1765.
Cheltenham & Gloucester plc (C&G) was a mortgage and savings provider in the United Kingdom, a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group. C&G specialised in mortgages and savings products. Previously, C&G was a building society, the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society. Its headquarters were in Barnwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.