The name Shell is linked to The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company. In 1833, the founder's father, Marcus Samuel, founded an import business to sell seashells to London collectors. When collecting seashell specimens in the Caspian Sea area in 1892, the younger Samuel realised there was potential in exporting lamp oil from the region and commissioned the world's first purpose-built oil tanker, the Murex (Latin for a type of snail shell), to enter this market; by 1907 the company had a fleet. Although for several decades the company had a refinery at Shell Haven on the Thames, there is no evidence of this having provided the name. COUNT 5
QSN1 The name Shell is connected to what company? ANS1 The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company QSN2 What was the purpose of the created of The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company? ANS2 to sell seashells to London collectors QSN3 What did the younger founder of The "Shell" Transport and Trading company discover while collecting seashell specimens in the Caspian Sea area? ANS3 there was potential in exporting lamp oil from the region QSN4 By what year did the company have a fleet of oil tankers operating in the Caspian Sea region? ANS4 1907 QSN5 The company operated a refinery on what river for several decades? ANS5 Thames