Achnacarry

Achnacarry ( Scottish Gaelic: Achadh na Cairidh ) is a hamlet in privately owned castle in the local chapter Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands.

Geography

Achnacarry is located about 15 miles north of the town of Fort William, near the village of Spean Bridge. With the Scottish- Gaelic Achadh na Cairidh ( box of fish trap ) describes the isthmus between Loch Lochy to the east and Loch Arkaig in the West.

Queen Victoria remarked during a visit to a small height above sea level and the natural forest, which is fine in the direction Achnacarry.

"As you approach Achnacarry, Which lies rather low, but is surrounded by very fine trees, the luxuriance of the tangled woods, surmounted by rugged hills, finer and finer Becomes till you come to Loch Arkaig, a little over half a mile from the house. This is a very lovely hole, reminding one of Loch Katrine, Especially where there is a little pier, from Which We embarked on board a very small but nice screw steamer Which belongs to Cameron of Lochiel. "

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Cameron Clan

The Chiefs of the Cameron clan are settled in Achnacarry since 1665. In August 2001, the Cameron clan met to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the assumption of office as the 26th Chief of the Clan Cameron, Colonel Sir Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel and a member of the Order of the Thistle. Also in the summer of 2009, the Cameron clan has met there again.

Achnacarry Castle

The castle was built in 1802 in the style of Scottish Baronials on the ruins of the old castle Achnacarry. The castle is not open to the public, but a museum of the Cameron clan, which is located on the premises.

The castle was used as a training camp for Allied troops from 1942 to 1945. British commandos, United States Army Rangers, commandos from France, the Netherlands, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Belgium practiced here with live ammunition, which led to losses, as well as the Castle damaged by fire. In memory of the formation of the Commandos during the Second World War is still the Commando March, a "Speed ​​March" conducted between Spean Bridge and Achnacarry.

Agreement

On August 18, 1928 met in Achnacarry Castle representatives of oil producing companies. They formed a cartel and agreed production quotas. A contract that Achnacarry Agreement or As -Is " Agreement has been agreed. During the 1920s there were among the oil-producing company competition. Striking of these was in India between Standard Oil of New York and a branch of Royal Dutch Shell. Participants included representatives by:

• Anglo-Persian Oil Company
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Standard Oil of New Jersey

This AS-IS agreement was described in 1952 in a report entitled The International Petroleum Cartel of the Federal Trade Commission to the subcommittee of the U.S. Senate. With the As -Is Agreement seven principles were agreed to limit "excessive competition", which would have led to an excessive overproduction. This involved dividing the markets ( geographically according to the Red Line Agreement, after oil fractions), the fixing of prices and the limitation of the expansion of production capacity. The agreement inhibited the expansion of oil production capacity in the Middle East by a restriction of price competition in the product market and supported the price of products made from crude oil from the U.S. and Canada, so politically safe neighborhoods. The strategy was a georeferenced price structure, in which the seller of their Free On Board ( FOB ) - calculated prices according to one or more base -point- location factors from a table, plus standardized freight costs. For the aufwandarm to be conveyed crude oil in the Middle East, this system led to the development of production capacities delayed by the exploitation of existing concessions until the Second World War and in the U.S. and Canada reserves were exploited. In 1928 more than one third of global crude oil production reduced by the Agreement. The company feared that in a competition to increase the low cost of low-effort oil production in the Middle East without market expansion costs. The resulting distribution of production among the countries of the Middle East and worsening entkolonisierende and dýsisphobe trends in populations were most pronounced in Iraq and Iran. The agreement established a pattern to secure profits in the oil business, which tried to imitate later OPEC.