Company files 1946-1987; letter books 1904-1952; correspondence files and boxes (UK and foreign) 1961-1976; purchase records 1915-1967; order records 1908-1965; completed orders and related correspondence 1960-1981; sales ledgers 1900-1966; general sales correspondence 1956-1976; specification cards and pin order records 1952-1977; copy order records 1971-1973; technical papers 1964-1975; repair invoices 1961-1968; wages books 1963-1974; work studies 1959-1973
Abstract of accounts, furnishings and current charges 1892-1915, Ledger no. 1. (With index) 1911-1921, and souvenir brochure giving brief history of the firm and includes mounted photographs showing exterior and interior views of Dudhope Works, some with personnel with negatives of photographs, 1839-1946. Also includes illustrated booklet outlining history and development of Low & Bonar Group & Companies, including William Fergusson & Sons Ltd. c.1950, and a set of accounts and reports 1985.
A Century of Service. (1861-1961). Wilson & Sons (Dundee) Ltd, animal foodstuff manufacturers, Caledonian Oil Mills, Dundee. A brief history of the firm illustrated with photographs.
Photocopy of Royal Air Force Pilot's Flying Log Book, 1940-1945; Photographs, c 1941-1945; Records relating to death of Squadron Leader William Roxburgh, 1995.
Material pertaining to the employment of William Norrie in the Barnagore Jute Mill Company in India between 1949 and 1952, where he was employed as a Mill Mechanic. Items relating to Mr Norrie's employment in India
Contains a self-published book titled "Was Disaster built into the first Tay Bridge? - Surviving correspondence which went to the Inquiry but was NOT revealed". Photographs and notes of notes on loyal address from his time as a student representative council member in St Andrews, and CDs containing summaries of research, powerpoint presentations, with one presentation on the S Drive in electronic format only (MS 415/2/1).
Marketing and PR Records including publication titled 'Business in Dundee in the XIXth Century' by J R L Halley Narrative developed from notes on the history of the firm and on the jute industry in Dundee. 1 volume, c1977; 'A History of Halley's Mill 1822-1980', edited by J.R.L. Halley, printed by William Halley & Sons Ltd, Dundee 1 volume, 1980; and 'A History of Halley's Mill 1822-1980' with brief manuscript commentary on the text 1 volume, 1980 - 2000.
Cassette tape entitled Schola Clara: The High School of Dundee, 1911-1918, spoken by W. Fraser Mitchell; notes for proposed illustrated talk called A Century of Dundee Life, 1865-1965; A Short Family History. Being an Account of a family of Lawson their Progenitors and Kinsmen by W. Fraser Mitchell; notes and anecdotes concerning women in Universities, University College Dundee staff, Dundee personalities and some Dundee buildings including St. John's (Roseangle Parish Church), Botanical Gardens 1977; photograph of Morgan Academy, Dundee, Class II (1908-1909).
Notes entitled 'Co-operation in Dundee c 1790-1940' by William Duncan concerning labour relations and co-operative societies in Dundee, Broughty Ferry and Monifieth and including biographical notes with bibliography and index, 1940-1942. Volume of notes concerning labour relations in general and the co-operative societies in Dundee, Broughty Ferry, and Monifieth, in particular includes biographical notes on John Barrow, W.H. Crooks, John Leese, Robert Martin, William Phillips, James Wilkie. Includes bibliography and index. [113pp] [Copy typescript] 1940-1942 pp1-23 political and social conditions in Dundee, 19th and 20th centuries; with bibliography. pp25-35 notes from Dundee Year Books, 1878-1916, mainly concerning labour relations. pp36-73 notes on the origins of the co-operative movement in general and on the co-operative societies in Dundee, in particular includes food price lists 1882 and 1904. pp73-110 notes on co-operation in Dundee 1918-1939 from press reports.
Copies of papers and photographs relating to Mr William Allan during his time in India working for Andrew Yule & Co. and then as mill manager in the Dalhousie and Northbrook mills.
The volumes consist of four log books and one volume showing various lists kept by Walter Kinnes and David Esplin on board the SS Active during expeditions to Hudson Bay and Straits and also relates to Mica mining.
Grant's Jubilee Supplement' to the Broughty Ferry Guide and Carnoustie Gazette, Saturday, 13 April, 1957; scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings relating to WG Grant & Co Ltd, and the jute industry in general 1950-1958; plans and technical drawings 1857-1960.