In October 1910, British businessmen William Sime and Henry Darby established Sime, Darby & Co,
a fledgling player in the lucrative rubber industry.
The company later diversified to cultivating palm oil and coca and met with enormous success.
William Middleton Sime
William Middleton Sime was a 37-year-old Scottish adventurer and fortune seeker. He had two failed ventures behind him – one in import-export business and the other in coffee plantations - when he left his job as a mercantile assistant in Singapore.
Henry Darby
Henry Darby was a wealthy 50-year-old English banker who owned property in Northern Malaya.
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