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Signed applications for Ordinary Shares in Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd, in the names of James Gibbs, J A Hill, Karl B Edwards, Sir R A Cooper, P R Clarke, and one other individual (signature not readily legible).

Cooper McDougall & Robertson Ltd

Board

Secretariat papers

Company seal presses

Chemical Sales Account 1881

Chemical Sales Account 1882

Chemical Sales Account 1883

Chemical Sales Account 1884

Chemical Sales Account 1885

Chemical Sales Account 1886

Chemical Sales Account 1887

Sales Account 1891

Sales Account 1892

Sales Account 1893

Sales Account 1894

Sales Account 1895

Sales Account 1896

Sales Account 1897

Sales Account 1898

Sales Account 1899

Sales Account 1900

Sales Account 1901

Sales Account 1902

Sales Account 1903

Sales Account 1904

"Summary of Private Property"

Summary of Trade Capital, at 15 January 1884

Summary of Trade Capital, at 15 January 1885

Summary of Trade Capital, at 15 January 1886

Summary of Trade Capital, at 15 January 1887

Summary of Trade Capital, at 16 January 1888

Summary of Trade Capital, at 15 January 1890

Summary of Trade Capital, 1891

[Cooper family history]

Henry Harrowell, commercial traveller: Agreements and correspondence

Four apprenticeship indentures

Cooper & Nephews and Tomlinson & Hayward: correspondence and price lists

Undertakings not to disclose, concerning Sheep Dipping Powder

Sundry papers: agencies in New Zealand and Tasmania

Terms of Agency: John Grice & Co, Kingston, South Australia

Two Agency Agreements (Montevideo, Uruguay)

Sundry papers: New Zealand agencies

Agreements between William Cooper & Nephews and Charles Timson (Manager, USA)

Agency Agreement with Carlisle, Smith & Co (Uruguay)

Samuel Rowland Timson: Agreement and correspondence

Letters Patent (William Harris and Arthur Smith): "Improvements in machines for packing powdered and other substances in bags or like wrappers"

Correspondence with and concerning J B Kettles (Cape Colony)

Three Agreements with Arthur John Chaplin (Cape Colony)

Power of Attorney: S R Timson

Letters of engagement: Travellers (Australia)

William Cooper & Nephews and The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

Agency Agreements (Buenos Aires)

Press cuttings on the hazardous manufacture of sheep dipping powder

Power of Attorney, William Cooper & Nephews to Henry Harrowell

Loan to Arthur John Chaplin, to build a house in Port Elizabeth

Agreement with W A O'Meara: agency terms

Agreement with the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency: agency terms

Agreement with Common, Sheldon & Co Ltd: agency terms

Two Agreements to establish and maintain flocks of Shropshire sheep (Cape Colony)

Three Deeds of Partnership

Power of Attorney: Jose Toso and George Talbot Crane

Agreement with Quibell Bros (Buenos Aires)

Prices Agreement with Agents in Buenos Aires

Various Agreements: Argentine Republic

Draft Agreement between Richard Powell Cooper and Arthur Smith

Agreement between The Kemp Sheep Branding Liquid Co Proprietary Ltd and William Cooper & Nephews

Agreement with Lawes Chemical Co Ltd

Agreement to purchase F S Burch & Co (Chicago)

Power of Attorney: George Thornton Cripps

A J Chaplin: Income Tax return on behalf of William Cooper & Nephews, for Cape of Good Hope

Agreement with Walford Whittle (Traveller)

Agency Agreement with Thomas Alfred Wood (Nairobi)

Agreements with James Samuel Loosley (Traveller)

Three Agreements with James William Probert (Manager, Gonubie Park, and Traveller)

Various Agreements (America)

"Register of Documents in Safe"

Agreement with Menzies, Neild & Co (Buenos Aires) concerning sale of sheep shearing machines

Share certificates for Plate Walls (Port Elizabeth) Ltd

Agreement with James Bennett (Traveller)

Agreements concerning property in Yalding, Kent

Various items representative of Company history

South-Russian Company for Trade in Cattle and Dairy Produce: Share Certificates

W Cassels Brown, "Manufacture of a Sheep Dip"

W Cassels Brown, "Report on Lock Cornering Machines" and "Wrapping Machine Report"

Two Agreements to establish and maintain flocks of sheep (Cape Colony)

Agreement with B F Mitchell (Traveller, New Zealand)

Agreement and correspondence with R H F Dumaresq (Manager, South Africa)

Agreement between William Cooper & Nephews and Charles Timson

Agreement with Ernest Spencer Clarke (Traveller)

Agreement with Neild & Co (Buenos Aires)

Agency Agreement with T A Wood (Nairobi)

Agreement: Earl Brownlow and William Cooper & Nephews for use of rubbish tip at Little Heath

"Notes from William Cooper's notebooks"

Fire insurance policies (Chicago and Albuquerque)

Agency Agreement with Newland, Tarlton & Co (Nairobi)

Agreements with Fred Verran Junior and Samuel Emslie (Travellers)

Agency Agreement with Carlisle Crocker & Co (Uruguay)

Agency Agreements with Michel Rooze & Co (Argentine Republic)

Agency Agreements with Sociedad Anonima Importadora y Exportadora de la Patagonia

Agency Agreement with Bromberg & Co (Brazil)

Share allotment

Memorandum and Substituted Articles of Association of Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: issue of 50,000 Ordinary Shares for public subscription

[Secretary correspondence re Shares]

Documents in connection with application for quotation on the Stock Exchange

Thomas Ainslie Robertson: Service Agreements

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: papers concerning Report of the Factory Investigation Committee

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: Reports of Company Meetings reprinted from <i>The Times</i>

Cooper McDougall & Robertson Ltd: Agreements with Abdol Ltd concerning Savings Deposit Fund and Pension Fund

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson (South America) Ltd: nomination of T H Lloyd as Alternate Director

Letters of sympathy concerning the death of W S Spark (Export Manager)

Papers concerning the death of Brig General R M Foot

Centenary photographs

Candidature of W E O Walker-Leigh for post of Managing Director

Notes of Board Meeting, 20 May, 1937, referring to Managing Director appointment

J G Barraclough: "correspondence re termination of service"

"Conference of Overseas Managers"

Memoranda, J A Hill to Sir RA Cooper

Mr F G C Fison: appointment as Technical Adviser to Cooper McDougall & Robetson Ltd

"Sir Ernest Roney's letter re voting"

Lecture by Dr L E Robinson, "Technical Service in our Business"

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Alan Grant (Plaintiff) and Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd (Defendants): Depositions of Witnesses on behalf of the Defendants

Notes of confidential conferences between Sir R A Cooper, H Tansley Witt and W E O Walker-Leigh

"Mr Walter-Leigh's Service Agreement" (1)

"Policy of CM&R Ltd"

James Gibbs: retirement presentation

Memorandum and New Articles of Association of Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd

New Articles of Association of Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd

J A Hill, Notes and Minutes in draft to Directors' Meetings

Notes concerning Directors' fees

J A Hill, Notes taken at Board Meeting 25 May, 1939

Proposal to form "Home Trade Selling Company" and correspondence with M H McDougall

Correspondence concerning re-organisation: Sir R A Cooper and W E O Walker-Leigh

Agenda, Special Meeting of Directors, 14 June 1939

Two memoranda from Finance & Accounts Dept: "Costs of formation of separate company" and "Datum profits"

Correspondence concerning the death of Thomas Henry Lloyd

"Head Office Reorganisation"

Further correspondence and papers concerning "Home Sales Reorganisation"

Correspondence between W E O Walker-Leigh and Michael McDougall

Correspondence between Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd and Sir Ernest Roney

Correspondence between Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd and D S A McDougall

"McDougall papers"

Correspondence with W E O Walker -Leigh concerning D S A McDougall

Memorandum and New Articles of Association (Secretary's copy and Managing Director's copy)

W E O Walter-Leigh: Service Agreements (and correspondence)

Small notebook recording distribution of New Articles of Association

Correspondence between Sir R A Cooper and W E O Walker-Leigh

"Salaries 1940"

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: "Estimated Results for the Year Ending 30th September, 1940"

D S A McDougall: Trusteeship of Cooper Pension Fund and Cooper Savings Deposit Fund

Correspondence between Sir R A Cooper and D S A McDougall

Advance of salary for Income Tax purposes

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: Agreements with D S A McDougall and M H McDougall

"Record of Customers' Complaints Regarding CM&R and Subsidiary Companies' Products"

Letters from R H Harrowell to W E O Walker-Leigh and to H Tansley Witt

Patent application correspondence: "Dispersible Sulphur"

Particulars of Patent for dispersible sulphur

Registration overseas of British Patent 10715/40 (SC Dip): correspondence

Cooper McDougall & Robertson Ltd: tithe redemption papers for Berkhamsted properties

"Mr Walter-Leigh's Service Agreement" (2)

Papers concerning the death of N J D Pagden

F A Cooper, "Report on the Future of the Technical Services"

T Ainslie Robertson, "Report on visit to South Africa"

Papers concerning the death of Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper (1874-1946)

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: correspondence concerning entry in "British Chemicals 1949"

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: correspondence concerning entry for Morris, Little & Son Ltd in "British Chemicals 1949"

Returns notifying change of Director to the Registrar of Companies

Extraordinary General Meeting, 26 May, 1949: Resolutions and New Articles of Association

Extraordinary General Meeting, 26 May, 1949: votes of Shareholders

Extraordinary General Meeting, 26 May, 1949: administrative correspondence

"Victor Drenching Gun" and "Aerosol Trigger Grip": correspondence

Ashmole Investment Trust

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: correspondence concerning entry in "British Chemicals 1951"

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: correspondence concerning entry for Morris, Little & Son Ltd in "British Chemicals 1951"

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: correspondence concerning entry in "Publicity Handbook"

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: correspondence concerning entry in "British Chemicals" (1953)

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: correspondence concerning entry for Morris, Little & Son Ltd in "British Chemicals" (1953)

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: correspondence concerning entry in "British Chemicals" (1955)

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: correspondence concerning water supply survey

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers: (New) Articles of Association and various publications

Cooper, MCDougall & Robertson Ltd: "Organisation"

Sir Richard Powell Cooper Annuity Funds

Post Book, Secretary's Office

Plan of Company canteen and pavilion (Berkhamsted), and Butter Factory plan (New South Wales)

Cobalt Pellets (or Cobalt Bullets): correspondence on patent matters

Company loans to UK employees: policy statements

Company loans to overseas employees: policy statements

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: Ordinary Share purchase by The Wellcome Foundation Ltd

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