University of Dundee Archives

1932 Rice threshing machines, thrashers'. Letters, catalogues, prices and blueprints of machinery

MS 45/9/30
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23 Jul 1929 - 6 Mar 1932

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Includes catalogues for Bon-Accord Engineering Co. Ltd, Aberdeen; Alexander Scott, Millwright and Engineer, Strichen, Aberdeenshire; Nalder and Nalder Ltd., engineers, Wantage, England; Ransomes, Simes & Jeffries Ltd., Engineers, Ipswich; Geo. McCartney & Co., engineers, millwrights and ironfounders, Ayrshire; Bridge End Foundry Company, engineers, millwrights and Ironfounders, Cardigan; Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., Lincoln; R.G. Garvie & Sons, engineers and millwrights, Aberdeen; Barclay, Ross & Hutchison, millwrights, engineers etc, Aberdeen. Letters from other companies to Douglas & Grant with quotes and estimations for rice thrashers/threshers. Richard Garrett & Sons, Ltd., engineers and boilermakers, Leiston; Marshall, Sons & Co. Ltd., engineers, Gainsborough; James Ferries & Co., automobile and general engineers, Inverness; Garvie, Innes & Scott, engineers, millwrights & implement makers, Aberdeen; Massey & Co. Ltd., engineers, Madras; Gran Molino de Cilindros, (in Mexican)

4 pages from Rothman's Cigarette Paper, featuring a 'chart of good and bad times', claiming to predict periods of boom and slump; 'the winning eight', an article linking cigarettes and Oxbridge rowing teams; 'the story of the cigarette' curing and grin...

MS 45/9/17
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c 1932

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

4 pages from Rothman's Cigarette Paper, featuring a 'chart of good and bad times', claiming to predict periods of boom and slump; 'the winning eight', an article linking cigarettes and Oxbridge rowing teams; 'the story of the cigarette' curing and grinding, and marketing the leaf

Abstract accounts and balance sheets, Douglas & Grant Ltd, 1918-1926; with detailed statements of assets and liabilities

MS 45/2/1
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1923-1925

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Abstract of cost of Frankfield House. Bears stamp of Robert Douglas

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Achievement', 4-page article celebrating Boots' 1000th store opening

MS 45/9/18
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9 Oct 1933

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Admiralty costs: order records and prices of items supplied to Royal navy

MS 45/3/30
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1941-1945

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Advertising leaflet, The Perfect Mixer, patent No. 27942. James H. Steele, farm supplier, Edinburgh.

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Advertising page [torn along centre] featuring a 26-head linoleum carpet printing machine belonging to Melville-Brodie Engineering Co, Kirkcaldy.

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

On reverse, article in English and German on aspects of linoleum trade naming the Nairn and Greenwich companies.

Agreement, with subsequent alterations, between Messrs Douglas & Grant, Dunnikier Foundry, Kirkcaldy, and Mark Wadia, Manchester and Bombay, appointing him agent throughout the district of Bombay

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Album of copies of photographs in MS 45/7/2

MS 45/7/6
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c1905-1911

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Also includes additional photographs of a steam engine and hulling mills.

Album of photographs , of oil milling machinery.

MS 45/7/10/32
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n.d.

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

1-25

Album of photographs (114-174)

MS 45/7/3
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1911-1914

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Steam engines, rice milling machinery and associated parts, hoists/winches, views of workshops (without workers)

Album of photographs (1-47), of rice milling machinery

MS 45/7/10/27
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n.d.

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Album of photographs (217-295)

MS 45/7/5
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1873-1907

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Steam engines, rice milling machinery also mixing tanks, hoists, pumps and views of workshop and exterior of works (some with workers)

Album of photographs (57-113)

MS 45/7/2
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1907-1911

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Steam engines and rice milling machinery with a few photographs of mine hoists/winches, and a crane, and a workshop view with workers. DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Aspirating fan with shaker. DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Winnowing fan, double blowing fan with wooden casing. DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Aspirating fan, type "c", with wooden casing. DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Steam barring engine, single cylinder DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Steam barring engine, single cylinder; another view of 45/7/2(078) DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Travelling band slat conveyor, iron framing DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Travelling band slat conveyor, wood framing. DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; ? Steam driven hoist or winch, indicator disc. DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; ?Compound steam driven hoist or winch DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; CORLISS and slide valve engine with horizontal back and air pump DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Horizontal steam engine, another view of 45/7/22(083) DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Complete rice mill for small production. DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Complete rice mill for small production; another view of 45/7/2(084) DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Complete rice mill for small production, another view of 45/7/2(084) DUNNIKIER FOUNDRY; Twin three cylinder vertical reciprocating pump with air vessels.

Album of photographs (l-56)

MS 45/7/1
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1873-1907

Part of Lewis C Grant & Co Ltd, Dunnikier Foundry, Dysart

Mainly steam engines but includes some photographs of rice milling machinery and mine hoists. Two views of erecting department with workers and a photograph of whisky distilling apparatus.

Album of photographs of mining machinery. '