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Records of the National Light and Heat Company, comprising mounted facsimile of programme for admission to meeting at 97 Pall Mall to establish the National Light and Heat Company, to exploit F A Winsor's hydrocarbonic lights. Facsimile undated, original item 1807.

National Lubricating Oil and Grease Federation records comprise: minutes, 1921-1922 (Ms 23241), ledger, 1953-1964 (Ms 23242) and audited accounts and balance sheets, 1959-1964 (Ms 23243).

Records of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror day reel and machine staff chapel and federated house chapel. The records comprise minutes, attendance registers, members' subscription books, correspondence and related papers.

Papers of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, including the Amalgamated Society of Tailoresses and the United Clothing Workers' Union, comprising 1. Amalgamated Society of Tailors; 2. London Society of Tailors and Tailoresses (formerly West End Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses); 3.United Clothing Workers' Union; 4. National Unions of Tailors and Garment Workers.

Minutes and papers of the London District Committee of the National Union of Vehicle Builders.

Papers of the Neumann family, 1850-1984. Comprising early family documents including a will of 1864 from the Stern family, death notices and certificates of mostly Stern family members and travel pass for Emil Neumann, dated 1922; personal papers of Ludwig Neumann including passports and id cards (unnumbered) amongst which is a Reisepass of the Third Reich stamped with the letter 'J'; copy birth and death certificates, membership cards of the Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten (National League of Jewish Combatants) and death notices; personal papers and correspondence of Dina Neumann and Luise Elkisch Neumann including passports and identity cards, testimonials; correspondence from Nazi authorities and British authorities; 'Familienstammbuch' (document registering a marriage) of Richard Elkisch; English hate-mail received around the time of naturalisation, c 1947; personal papers and correspondence of Ludwig Neumann, mostly relating to the re-establishment of the company, Neumann and Mendel in Mönchengladbach. Membership certificates for organisations including the Jewish Community, Mönchengladbach, 1950s; papers regarding transfer of money to Germany; various travel papers; papers regarding tax; papers regarding compensation; family correspondence mostly between Luise and her brother Ludwig (aka Lutz) comprising postcards and small letters, 1919-1947 (mostly 1940s and post war); letters, 1921-1984, many between friends and former acquaintances immediately after the war; early 1950s correspondence, mostly between Luise and Ludwig during Ludwig's stay in Mönchengladbach and business papers.

Records of Newgate Market, City of London, 1671-1878, including administrative papers (petitions, court orders, letters) and financial papers (accounts, rental accounts).

Corporate records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, including Board and general meetings minute books; agenda books; register of members; register of mortgages; register of seals; articles of association; annual reports; and papers relating to the acquisition by Courage.

Records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, comprising memorandum about box 'WRN' and key being sent from Maidenhead to Horsleydown. The box contained company documents, now catalogued as ACC/2305/23/001-005, 008-010, 013-015, 017, 021 and 033 and 042.

Sales records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, comprising 'Mr W R N's papers and notes regarding the triangle trade mark 1929 (Bass and Co) 'No 4 Box', pursued in High Court and, in 1951, House of Lords.

Personnel records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, including papers relating to setting up the pension scheme; Staff Pension Fund Committee minutes; pension fund trust deed; papers relating to membership of the pension fund; financial accounts; and papers relating to the pension fund at the closure of the brewery.

Corporate records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including minutes of Directors' meetings and annual general meetings; agenda books; managing directors' reports to the Board; register of seals; debenture records; papers relating to shares; papers relating to acquisitions and partnerships; and annual reports with accounts.

Financial records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including analyses of balance sheets; private ledgers and loans ledger.

Premises records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including inventory of the Black Eagle Brewery and leasehold public houses; deeds and leases.

Production records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including preliminary report on the brewery by consulting chemists and brewing book.

Property records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including leases and other papers about unlicensed premises; registers of details of public house leases in London and Windsor; and leases and other papers about licensed premises.

Contract between the North Midland Railway Company and Joel Buxton for the building of Masborough station in Yorkshire, 16 Dec 1839. Includes specification and prices for materials.

Records donated by the London Gas Museum, comprising some 400 Ordnance Survey sheets of various scales and editions, 1893-1989. Many have been amended to show property owned or leased by the Gas Light and Coke Company, the Brentford Gas Company or the North Thames Gas Board. These properties tend to be gas works or showrooms. The plans cover only parts of the area north of the River Thames. There are no sheets for areas south of the Thames. A later deposit consisted of staff magazines and photographs for both the North Thames Gas Board and the South Eastern Gas Board.

Papers of the North Thames Gas Board, comprising records of predecessor companies, including the Brentford Gas Light Company, the Gas Light and Coke Company, Harrow and District Gas Company, the Harrow and Stanmore Gas Company, North Middlesex Gas Company, Pinner Gas Company, Uxbridge Old Gas Company, the Hornsey Gas Company Limited, and Staines and Egham District Gas and Coke Company Limited, 1708-1947. Records include assignments of interest, leases, releases, fines, copies of wills, mortgages, papers relating to bankruptcy, conveyances, depositions, agreements, deeds, marriage settlements, testimony, bonds, quit rents, correspondence, abstracts of title, Chancery proceedings, sale particulars, licences, engineers reports, Parliamentary Bills and financial accounts for properties, businesses and persons in Acton, Brentford, Ealing, Chiswick, Greenford, Harrow, Hendon, Heston, Hornsey, Isleworth, Northwood, Pinner, Southall, Tottenham, Twickenham and Uxbridge. Also memorandum and articles of association for the Hornsey Gas Company, description of the Hornsey Gas Works, and regulations of the Staines and Egham District Gas and Coke Company Limited.

Papers of the Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company, 1834-1924, including prospectus; certificates of registration; deed of settlement; list of shareholders; copy of Uxbridge Gas Act; correspondence; petition; handbills and posters; circular letters; notices; bonds; contracts; plan of the houses, lands and buildings situated within a radius of 330 yards from the works of the Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company, with book of reference listing owners, lessees and occupiers; schedule of repairs; valuation of machinery and apparatus; list of meters; financial accounts; engineers reports; directors' reports; annual reports; agreement for transfer of Maidenhead Gas Company; report of the directors of Great Marlow Gas Company Limited, with account of intended amalgamation with the Uxbridge, Wycombe and District Gas Company; minute books of the Committee of Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers' Company.

Papers of the North Middlesex Gas Company, 1869-1932, including printed account books and reports of the Company.

Papers of the Gas Light and Coke Company, 1896-1929, including agreement between the Warden and College of All Souls, Oxford and the Gas Light and Coke Company to lay gas main through College lands in Willesden and leases of 38 Oxford Road, Kilburn to the Gas Light and Coke Company.

Records of the North Woolwich Undertaking, comprising papers relating to a messuage called "the Gallions" and 115 acres in North Woolwich, and 10 acres in the parish of Barking, 1774-1801.

Records of the Nuddea Mills Company, comprising memorandum and articles of association.

Records of the Oakhill Brewery Company Limited, comprising annual general meeting minute books and agendas.

Records of Octagon Brewery Limited, including Directors' minute book; Board agenda book; Annual and other general meeting minutes, including reports and accounts; register of seals and wages book.

Records of Oldham Sign Service, sign makers, 1930-1988. This collection contains corporate and accounts records including minutes of Directors' meetings, documents relating to Annual General Meetings, articles of association, trading agreements, asset transfer documents and some general correspondence.

Manuscript orders made by the Hamburg Company, 26 Jan 1668, to prevent 'employing unfreemen to buy and shipp off woolen' .

Minute book of the Oriental Rubber Company.

Records of Orion SAR de Petrol, petroleum company, comprising report on war damage sustained in 1916 and the resulting compensation claim.

Records of the Ouvah Coffee Company Limited, comprising a cash book and notes on the history of the company and of coffee planting in Ceylon.

Letter from Robert Owen of Braxfield, [Lanarkshire] to 'the London Partners in the firm of Robert Owen and Co', 24 Oct 1814. Sending monthly accounts [missing]. Attributing poor trading in cotton to political instability in Europe; explains that unprofitable sales in Russia must continue until the market improves so that the mills [at New Lanark] can be kept working.

Records of P. Wilkinson and Sons Limited including agreements and assignments of business, memorandum and articles of association, certificate of incorporation, account book (1837-1907), order book (1864-1870), mixture and metal book (1853-1897), articles and printed material, premises deeds and papers for Tottenham Street and Tottenham Mews, and 'On National Service' designed brooch.

Records of Padang Jawa Rubber Estate Limited, comprising annual reports and papers relating to the sale of the Company.

Records relating to the Paddington to Wapping Canal, comprising letters applying for stock, 1802; 27 sheets recording a canvass of persons affected asking them whether they were for or against a canal or a canal and railway; and bills of expenses in connexion with the above.

Papers of Maurice Pappworth comprising writings, notes, articles, correspondence, draft chapters, and photographs, 1960s-1990s. Subjects include material relating to his concern in ethical issues arising from experiments on humans, Section C, to Section D on organ transplants and brain death as well as Jewish medical ethics, 1964-1994. It is interesting to note the reactions that Human Guinea Pigs stirred up within the medical profession in Section C, 1958-1991. With regards to not being elected a Fellow of the RCP, Section E highlights how other doctors were appalled at the length it took for him to be elected (see letters of congratulations), 1961-1993.

Records of Parkinson and Frodsham, clock and watch makers, comprising a watch manufacturing book 1872-1925; a register of clocks and watches supplied to retailers 1866-1914 and a record of retail sales 1911-4; clock and watch repair books 1937-45; customer accounts 1923-40 and 1932-45 and lists of customers and manufacturers in the clock and watch trade [1900-1941].

Records of Pataling Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports, circulars, correspondence, statistics, and photographs of the production of rubber, crepe and latex.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of Anglo Malay Rubber Company Limited, comprising articles of association, circulars to shareholders, annual reports and accounts.

Records of the Bikam Rubber Estate Limited, comprising articles of association, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.

Records of Pataling Royalties Limited, tin dredging company, comprising articles of association and circulars to shareholders.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of the Pernambang Rubber Estates Limited, including prospectus, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.

Records of Strathisla (Perak) Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, annual reports and circulars to shareholders.

Records of Paton and Charles, soap manufacturers, comprising dissolution of partnership of Robert Charles the elder, Robert Charles the younger and Andrew Paton Charles in the business of Paton and Charles, soap manufacturers and the business of candle manufacturers at Paulsworks, 1867; licence to underlet manufactory premises in Bow Common, 1869; and mortgage for manufactory known as Pauls Works in St. Paul's Road, Bow Common, 1876-1880.

Papers of Sir William Drummond Macdonald Paton, 1930-1993, chiefly comprising papers relating to his main research interests, namely underwater physiology, histamine, synaptic transmission, drug dependence, anaesthetic mechanisms, allergy electron microscopy and the history of science, particularly medical science. The collection also includes correspondence, research papers and laboratory notebooks, and papers relating to the committee work that occupied his energies. Papers from Paton's time as both a Rhodes Trustee and a Wellcome Trustee provide further evidence of the extent of his commitments in committee.

Papers relating to Paton's Chairmanship of the Research Defence Committee (1972-77) are particularly extensive and reveal the social and political pressures of the period, the passionate challenges of the anti-vivisection lobby, as well as Paton's personal commitment to a socially responsible use of animals in scientific experimentation. Papers relating to Man and Mouse: Animals in Medical Research (1984), in which Paton set out his fundamental position on animal experimentation, provide further material on this topic.

Another field of interest in which Paton expended considerable energy was that of drug dependence, particularly the pharmacological action of cannabis. Through work in laboratory and committees, and through the media and many speaking engagements, he campaigned strenuously to warn of what he judged to be the deleterious effects of cannabis, and forged campaign alliances with American colleagues who shared his concerns.

Throughout his career, Paton maintained strong links with the Royal Navy, acting as scientific adviser and consultant on deep diving and underwater physiology. This strand of his work was of enduring interest: Paton's work on the physiological properties of gases at high pressure led directly to the development of the deep-diving breathing mixture known as 'Tri-Mix', in which nitrogen is added to helium and oxygen. Paton took great pleasure in the Royal Navy achieving, in 1980, the world's deepest dive (see D/2/14).

History of Pawsons and Leafs Limited, ladies' clothing wholesale warehousemen, written by Cyril P. Fendick, general manager of the firm.

Records of Peal and Company, bootmakers, 1811-1964. The collection consists of 660 items, 40 of which are administrative records such as account books and ledgers. The remaining 620 volumes are 'Feet Books' recording each order and usually containing an outline drawing of the customer's feet. Every book includes 150 orders and was given a running number. The earliest surviving book is no. 23 from the 1870s and the last is no. 1002 from shortly before the firm closed in 1965.

Selected list of customers:
Academics:
Hugh Trevor-Roper 543 (822) page 42
Art Dealer/Gallery Proprietor:
Sir Hugh Lane 02/096 (371) page 95
Actors/Film Industry:
Frank Allenby 02/503 (781) page 53
George Arliss 02/052 (327) page 68
Adele Astaire (later Lady Charles Cavendish) 02/366 (644) page 142
Fred Astaire 02/260 (538) page 64 &
Mrs F E Astaire 02/366 (644) page 142
Joan Barry 02/495 page 94
Ethel Barrymore 02/038 (313) page 68,
John Barrymore 02/038 (313) page 56.
Humphrey Bogart & Mrs H Bogart (Lauren Bacall) 02/618 (999) pages 33 - 34
Herbert B Brill, producer 02/620 (1002) page 68
Sir Charles Chaplin 02/231 (509) page 49.
Gary Cooper 02/610 (992) page 42
Mrs Walt Disney 02/399 (677) page 35
William Dozier, actor/producer 02/559 (838) page 37
Edward Dymtryk, director 02/495 (773) page 94
Sir Douglas Fairbanks 02/373 (651) page 74
Henry Fonda 02/620 (1002) page 108
James Garner 02/597 (880) page 126
Cary Grant 02/558 (837) page 87
Rex Harrison 02/576 (857) page 7
Van Heflin 02/524 (802) page 60
Boris Karloff 02/433 (711) page 42
Steve McQueen 02/592 (874) page 26
John Mills 02/483 (761) page 42
David Niven 02/580 (861) page 32
Sir Laurence Olivier 02/526 (804) page 80
Charles Buddy Rogers 02/415 (693) page 33, actor/jazz musician, husband of Mary Pickford
Mrs Rudolph Valentino 02/541 (263) page 102, actress Jean Acker
Sam Wanamaker 02/610 (992) page 76
Jane Wyman 02/613 (995) page 14
Bankers:
N Hambro, Coldham Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 02/390 (668) page 139.
Guy de Rothschild 02/392 (670) page 151 and Mrs Guy de Rothschild 02/421 (699). page 1
Industrialists & Engineers:
Miss Irving J Bloomingdale 02/240 (518) page 89
Mrs Gilbert Colgate 02/361 (639) page 20
Henry Ford II and Mrs H Ford 02/613 (995) pages 26 - 27
Mrs Wallace Goodrich 02/399 (677) page 122
R Noel Guinness 02/263 (541) page 32
Howard Heinz 02/330 (608) page 38
Faith Rockefeller 02/301 (579) pages 4 and 5
Gladys Rockefeller 02/341 (619) page 131
Edgar Saunders, Chairman, Guinness 02/541 (820) page 39
Richard W Woolworth 02/614 (996) page 103
Military:
Field Marshall Lord Allenbrooke 02/012 (287) page 17
Air Vice Marshall Playfair 02/406 (684) page 71.
Col. Frank Shuttleworth, Old Warden Park, Biggleswade 02/013 (288) page 1
Musicians/Singers:
Eddie Fisher, singer 02/565 (844) page 137
Edward German, composer 02/034 (309) page 126
Benny Goodman 02/614 (996) page 19
Dean Martin, singer/actor 02/585 (867) page 93
Jehudi Menuhin 02/594 (877) page 2
Dickie Valentine 02/578 (860) page 26
Photographers:
Richard Avedon 02/555 (834) page 37
Walker Evans 02/520 (798) page 100
Politicians - UK:
Lady Violet Bonham Carter nee Asquith, 40 Gloucester Sq., Liberal politician 02/453
Mrs Neville Chamberlain 02/027 (302)
Rt Hon Sir Anthony Eden KG 02/489 (767) page 81
Politicians - foreign:
Dean G Acheson, US Secretary of State, 02/499 (777) page 109
Barry Goldwater, Senator (Republican presidential candidate) 02/591 (873) page 54
Edward L Kennedy 02/594 (877) page 5
John F Kennedy 02/568 (847) page 102
Mr Marx of Berlin c/o Dr W Smith, West Lodge, West End Lane, Hampstead, 02/003 (023) page 142
Col. Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR & Eleanor 02/466 (748) page 112
Theodore Roosevelt 02/036 (311) page 54
Publishers:
Conde Nast 02/250 (528) page 104
Royals and Aristocrats - UK:
HM King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, 02/414 (692) page 4
Hon F Bowes-Lyon, brother of the Queen Mother 02/087 (362) page 79
F J Bowes-Lyon, Grenadier Guards 02/417 (695) page 57
Lady Rosemary Spencer Churchill 02/526 (804) page 22
Lord Louis Mountbatten 02/212 (490) page 40 & 02/336 (614) page 99
Lord Petre 02/499 (777) page 1
Duke of Westminster 02/541 (820) page 18
Royals and Aristocrats - foreign:
Prince Aga Khan 02/013 (288) page 57
Princess Eugene of Belgium 02/299 (577) page 17
King of the Hellenes (Greece) 02/409 (687) page 94.
Crown Princess of Greece 02/418 (696) page 111
Prince Nicholas of Greece 02/047 (322) page 23
Prince Peter of Greece 02/439 (717) page 121
Crown Prince Constantine of Greece 02/575 (856) page 86
Crown Princess of Japan 02/299 (577) page 92
King & Crown Prince of Norway 02/427 (705) page 78
Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein 02/049 (324) page 87
Crown Prince of Sweden 02/285 (564) page 40
Queen Marie of Yugoslavia 02/555 (834) page 147
Sportsmen:
J H Parks 02/401 (679) page 15 cricketer, Surrey and England

Egon Pearson papers,1933-1934, 1955: paper 'Sampling Problems in Industry' given at the 3rd meeting of IARS, Mar 1934, manuscript draft and typescript of text; manuscript notes introducing discussion at the meeting; correspondence relating to the collection of sampling data from industry and other information for preparation of the papers; invitations to attend and post-meeting comments, Dec 1933-Mar 1934.

Some Aspects of the Geometry of Statistics, 1955 RSS Presidential Address, manuscript and typescript with diagrams.

Particulars of expenses incurred on the account of Thomas Pengelly, merchant of London, by the purchase of broadcloths at Aleppo [Syria], 8 Dec 1656.

Papers, 1868-1941, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, mainly documents relating to the business of Wyndham Hewitt Limited of The Causeway, Staines and 9 Clement's Lane, Lombard Street, City of London; including letters patent and other documents relating to inventions for improvements in generating machines and extractor fans by Henry F. Joel; and business agreements between Wyndham Hewitt and other businesses including Lagonda Motors Limited.

Records of Percy Jones (Twinlock) Limited, ledger manufacturers, 1905-1993. Records include minutes dating from 1912 to 1957, articles of association, and correspondence dating from 1910 to 1960, personnel records which concern Twinlock personnel during the Second World War; financial records including balance sheets from 1909 and a cash book dating from 1905 along with sales records and figures 1918 to 1965, salaries and pensions information 1940's to 1964; papers relating to associated organisations including the Shannon Company and factory 1906 to 1967.

Also publications including the "Twinlock News" from 1916 to 1963, as well as a history of the company, and a set of product catalogues 1913 to 1960's; a good selection of products dating from 1910 to 1970's showing the development of the Twinlock products and the work that went into their design and creation; photographs showing members of the Company, the Twinlock works in Beckenham and South Africa, and workers social events and activities; and a series of artefacts from the Twinlock Factory includes the Time-Bell from the Little Sutton Street premises and a 'Timothy Twinlock' Uniform which was the costume worn by the Company logo, a page boy holding a pile of books. The costume dates from the 1950's and includes the page boy's cap.

Papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome, 1800-1985, comprising articles, publications, financial records, legal records, administrative documents, property details, probate records, marriage and divorce records, diaries, microfiche of letter books, details of events, subscription lists, field and geological reports, press cuttings, photographs, ephemera, objects, and family papers dating back to 1800.

Archives of the Peruvian Corporation, 1849-1967, comprising the surviving records accumulated at the London Office of the Peruvian Corporation. The bulk of the collection is an accumulation of files, most of which are dated after 1930, with a large proportion dating from the last ten years of the Corporation's history. Of more special note is the unusual series of photograph albums, with photographs of railways, scenery, locomotives and rolling stock dating from the early years of the 20th century. It is clear that the Corporation regularly destroyed groups of non-current records, and further papers were destroyed just before the collection reached the Library, so many expected series do not appear (for example, there are very few financial records). Apart from a full series of Annual Reports and some legal documents, there is very little material relating to the Peruvian Bondholders' Committee or to the early days of the Corporation.