George Bonar, Managing Director of Low & Bonar, invited Tom Long, an electrical engineer, and his colleague, Henrik Rissik, to Dundee to launch their new company for manufacturing mercury arc rectifiers, transformers and electric arc welding equipment, at premises in part of the Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd., Dundee factory, a subsidiary of Low and Bonar. The lease for the new company, Bonar Long & Co. Ltd, began in October 1936. In 1994 the company became part of ABB Power T&D Ltd, based in Aberdeen, maker of telegraph and telephone apparatus and equipment
Sources: http://www.scran.ac.uk and https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bonar_Long_and_Co
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MS 199/5
Contracts, Patents and Licenses (5 Items)c 1964 - 1992 Dividends (1 Item) 1930s - 1980s Share stubs (1 Item) 1940s Private ledger (2 volumes) 1940s - 1950s Papers regarding loan from Board of Trade (1 Item) 1964 Private journal, accounts (1 Item) 1964 - c 1985 Bonar Long Electronics Ltd. Share register and register of members (1 Item) 1950s
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