Veterinary: Frant; Dairy Hygiene; Kelvindale; Pirbright; Foot and Mouth; Veterinary Products.

Date:
c.1940-c.1980
Reference:
WF/M/I/PR/V2
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

This material includes material from Cooper McDougall & Robertson Ltd. as well as Wellcome Veterinary.

Bundled as follows: Frant; Diary Hygiene; Kelvindale; Pirbright; Veterinary Products.

Folder 1. Frant. Acc89/43; Acc83/2
Images taken at the Wellcome Veterinary Research Station in Frant, Sussex which include various views of gardens and estate at different seasons, aerial views of the site. Colour images taken of the visit made by Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on the 7th November, 1968 to Frant.

Folder 2. Dairy Hygiene. Acc89/43
Images include sterilization and sanitisation of dariy equipment such as the use and cleaning of the Tankomatic- used to deliver plain rinse water or metered Iodron solution - and rinsing of interior tank surfaces with Iodron. There is also a typed sheet 'Wellcome Six - Point Plan for milk tank cleansing'. There are milk tank negatives.

Folder 3 &4 Kelvindale, Acc89/43; Acc89/68; Acc88/14
Images taken, some for tabloid at the Wellcome factory in Kelvindale, Glasgow, which include aerial views of the factory; the manufacture of Systamex - a veterinary product for eliminating parasitic worms in farm animals; Gamatox powder, production line and plant production of Piperonyl butoxide used in manufacture of Coopers insecticides at Wellcome factory. Other images of employees at the factory at work performing tasks such as labelling containers of disinfectant for foot and mouth disease; Coopers fly dip production; chemists in laboratories and staff socialising in canteen.

Folder 5.Pirbright, Acc89/43
Images of the factory at Pirbright in Surrey include the various shots of the exterior buildings; opening ceremony of 1984, people unidentified; chemists working in the laboratories c.1974; production labs in 1975; preparing plate cell cultures in Assay lab. and resuspending tissue culture cells.

Folder 6. Pirbright - Foot and Mouth Vaccine. Acc89/43; Acc88/34
Images include interior laboratory shots of staff employed in the production of the vaccine; product packaging of Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine; storage of vaccines at Pirbright; transportation of Vaccine- Wellcome trucks and airport transfer;

Folder 7. Veterinary Products
Images include product and packaging of Tribrissen, Coopertrin Systamex; Leptovax; Lanoxin; Actifed; Neosporin; Daraprim Covexin; Almevax; Epivax; Polybactrin; Antepar; Imuran; Septrin; Zyloric, Nasalgen; Coriban; Coparvax; Coopex; Stomoxin; Iltovax; Penicillin etc. in various forms- injection, powder, tablets, paste etc. Cooper Rinsan, Border Winter dip; Fly dip and Fiovax product and packaging are also included.

Publication/Creation

c.1940-c.1980

Physical description

7 Items Monochrome and colour photographs

Arrangement

Alphabetical by location and subject.

Related material

See also WF/C/M/PH

Copyright note

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust

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