Rank Organisation [SEP] dissolved or abolished
blunder. And they carried on, on that basis, not directly making them and they had no direct control over what they made at all, no influence. They just bought into pictures. They did an output deal with Orion and that carried on until they sold the shooting match. Then the decision was made to get out of film, so RFD was closed down, Rank Film Advertising was sold off, eventually the laboratories went. Cinemas was the last one to go.
In 1995, the Rank Group acquired
ranks. Each of a regiment's field officers — its Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, and Major — originally commanded their own Companies, as well as carrying out their regimental duties. It became the practice for the Colonel's and Lieutenant Colonel's companies to include one or two additional officers with the rank of Lieutenant "a pied" and/or Lieutenant "en second". Regiments' organisation varied, and was changed from time to time. These ranks appear to have been abolished some time early in the nineteenth century.