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Certificate of Registration No. 24109, dated 26 March, 1917.  With associated correspondence.

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)

Family finance planning: "Mr Chamberlayne's notes for consideration at meeting on 1st May 1917"

Draft Agreements and Powers of Attorney concerning overseas businesses

New Haven Leases

Summons (Road Traffic Offence): Sir Richard Cooper

Formulae for essence used in "British Odol"

Agreement between Alexander Robertson & Sons and Capt J F C Cameron

Agreements and related papers concerning the transfer of Shares in Thomas Bigg Ltd

Correspondence concerning "Company formation"

Various draft legal papers

Agreement for sale and purchase of Odol Chemical Works, Berkhamsted

Various Agreements concerning Alex Robertson & Sons Ltd and McDougall Brothers Ltd

William Cooper & Nephews Ltd: various documents and forms

Amalgamation papers (A R Chamberlayne, solicitor)

Draft papers concerning amalgamation

Draft Agreements and related documents concerning sale of William Cooper & Nephews to William Cooper & Nephews Ltd

"Scheme of Sir Richard Cooper for conversion into private limited companies"

William Cooper & Nephews: Return of Allotments of Shares (Form 45)

Agreement between Alexander Robertson & Sons and [Mr] Wright

Sale and Purchase Agreements and Conveyance: Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper and William Cooper & Nephews Ltd

Agreements and related papers concerning Kelvindale Works

Draft Assignment: Sir R A Cooper to William Cooper & Nephews Ltd concerning the goodwill of the businesses of William Cooper & Nephews in the Argentine, Australia, Uruguay and South Africa

William Cooper & Nephews Ltd: overseas companies guidance notes

Legal advice concerning the importation of sheep dip into Australia

William Cooper & Nephews (Australia) Ltd

S R Timson and Charles Timson: celebration of 50 years service "in the Cooper organization"

Various draft letters and documents concerning amalgamation, particularly capitalization

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: bound volume of documentation compliant with The Companies Acts (1908 to 1917)

Draft Agreement: William Cooper & Nephews (Australia) Ltd and Mr Rollo (Factory Manager)

South America: "Mr H O Waller's visit to Head Office"

"Secretarial Notes taken at Directors' and Finance Meetings"

Presentations to William Herbert Cooper, and to Philip R Cooper, on their 21st birthdays

McDougall & Robertson Ltd: correspondence with and concerning South African business

Kynoch & McDougall (South Africa) Ltd: draft Heads of Agreement

"Secretary's notes taken at meetings of William Cooper & Nephews Ltd, Kerol Ltd, T Bigg Ltd, and Finance Committee"

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: "Notes on Annexed Draft" (amalgamation)

Kynoch & McDougall (South Africa) Ltd: Agreements

McDougall & Robertson Ltd and Kynoch Ltd and Nobel Industries Ltd: arbitration papers

Assignments of Inventions to Cooper McDougall & Robertson Ltd

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: Returns of Allotments

Amalgamation papers (Private, Sir R A Cooper)

"Home Trade Committee"

Amalgamation papers: Shareholders and staffing

"Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: Old Amalgamation Papers (Part 1)"

"Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: Old Amalgamation Papers (Part 2)"

Kynoch & McDougall Ltd and Cape Explosives Works Ltd

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: Conference of Directors (on public company formation)

Agreement: William Cooper & Nephews Ltd and Sir Richard Cooper, consent to proposed purchase and amalgamation (Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd)

Agreement: issue of Bonus Shares

Correspondence concerning amalgamation with McDougall & Robertson Ltd

Agreement between William Cooper & Nephews Ltd and Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper (consent to proposed purchase)

Amalgamation papers: correspondence with A R Chamberlayne (solicitor)

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

William Cooper & Nephews Ltd: Agreement for Sale and Purchase of the Businesses of McDougall & Robertson Ltd and McDougall & Yalding Ltd, and lists of shareholdings

R B Carruthers, Managing Director, Cooper McDougall Robertson (Scotland) Ltd

Correspondence concerning conveyances (amalgamation with McDougall & Robertson Ltd)

Service Agreement between Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd and Charles Timson

McDougall & Robertson Ltd and Kynoch Ltd and Nobel Industries Ltd: terms of settlement

A D Robertson: Service Agreements

Cooper McDougall & Robertson Ltd: "Capitalisation"

"Capitalisation Scheme"

Papers on Capitalisation (marked Private)

Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd: "Proposed Advertisement for Stock Exchange purposes"

Printed circulars and notices (conversion to Public Company and Share allocation)

Agreement to satisfy declared bonus in paid Preference Shares

Applications for Shares in Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Ltd

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

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William Cooper & Nephews Certificate of Registration of Business Name

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