Papers of the Burroughs Wellcome and Co arm of the British Insulin Manufacturers (BIM) including correspondence, marketing, production and research of insulin. Most of the papers date from 1938-1953. Also including British Insulin Manufacturers committee minutes.
The Wellcome Foundation LtdPapers of Cooper McDougall and Robertson Ltd, [1824-1989], including board and subsidiary minute books and meeting papers; secretariat papers and statutory records under the Companies Acts; senior managers' papers (including K J Merrifield and A L McNeilly), including material relating to relations with external bodies and acquisition of companies, and reports on overseas visits; financial records including material relating to salaries; legal records including agreements and papers re litigation, patents and trade marks; research and development papers and some relating to manufacturing; marketing papers, including some operational papers, also company publications, product literature, memorabilia including photographs, films , printed ephemera, accounts of company history and material relating to the Cooper family and company employees; external publications; and objects including company seals; miscellaneous operational records including 1940s complaints register; products; William Cooper's pestle and mortar [now missing], copy of publication, and notebooks, 1859-1880s; company publications; publications from the WF series; veterinary research and development records of the Coopers Technical Bureau including correspondence, reports and experiment results, 1896-1956; correspondence with War Office relating to supplies of veterinary products 1914-1917; dipping experiment tables 1918-1937 and complaints register c 1940-1947.
Cooper McDougall and Robertson LtdPapers of the Burroughs Wellcome and Company (BW and Co) and from 1924 the Wellcome Foundation Ltd (WF), [1860-1995], including records of the pre-partnership S M Burroughs Company; papers relating to the founders Henry S Wellcome and Silas M Burroughs; papers of senior managers from BW and Co and WF; legal papers, particularly concerned with Trade Marks and Stamp Duty; marketing records including operational papers, a large collection of images and of publications; financial records, mainly regarding salaries; papers relating to WF sites, including the Wellcome Chemical Works, Dartford; records of Coopers, the subsidiary veterinary company, together with records of Coopers own world-wide subsidiary companies; records of related bodies, the British Insulin Manufacturers Association and The Therapeutic Research Corporation.
Wellcome Foundation Ltd