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D5029 - Bryan Donkin, engineer; and Bryan Donkin Company Ltd - 1797-1999
1 - Bryan Donkin's Journals, with selected transcripts - 1809-1817
2 - Notebooks - early 19th cent
1 - Notebook containing medicinal remedies and other compositions (e.g. to prevent iron from rusting, for varnish etc.), preservatives and culinery recipes - early 19th cent
2 - Notebook containing measurements and formulae, including tables and data on steam, temperatures, weight, strength, etc., some quoted from [Thomas] Tredgold [engineer, 1788-1829] - early 19th cent
3 - Notebook containing measurements and formulae - early 19th cent
4 - Notebook containing measurements and formulae - early 19th cent
5 - Notebook containing measurements and diagrams of machines - early 19th cent
6 - Notebook of accounts (receipts and payments) - 1804-1806
7 - Notebook containing notes on the firm's history with references to patents and reports etc. Dates mentioned range from 1802-1851. Not all written by the same person or at the same time. - mid 19th cent
8-9 - Copies of extracts from Bryan Donkin's notebooks, 'M Enolie's process for making ivory paper', 1797-1820 - 20th cent
3 - Copy letter books and loose letters - 1799-1885
4 - Specifications for patents and associated papers - (1808)-1886
5 - Prospectuses for machinery - 1813-1814
6 - Sale particulars for 'the entire right and interest in the patent granted to Bryan Donkin for his invention of a pen on a new construction' - 1811
7 - Institution of Civil Engineers - 1820s
8 - Working notes and business papers - 19th cent
9 - Business correspondence - 1842-1881
10 - Business correspondence - 1870-1887
11 - Papers relating to employment conditions - 1851-1879
12 - Pamphlet calling for an end to interference in the engineering industry by the Central Association of Employers of Operatives Engineers etc - 1852
13 - Employment papers - 1855-1897
14 - Industrial action - 1851-1879
15 - Business papers - 19th cent
16 - Scheutz Difference Machine - (1855)-1990
17 - Counsel's opinion on Donkin's liability over shares in the Chartham Paper Mills Co., Chartham [Chatham?], Kent - 1870
18 - Engineering drawings - (1807)-20th cent
19 - Printed material - 1819-1888
20 - Bryan Donkin Company Ltd: company papers - 1889
21 - Bryan Donkin Company Ltd: further company papers - 1898-1902
22 - Memorandum and Articles of Association, Mar 1906 - 1906
23 - Specifications for patents - 1896-1938
24 - Managing Directors' Annual Reports, 1906/07-1950/51 - 1907-1951
25 - Hopkinsons Holdings - 1970s-1999
26 - House of Commons debate on job losses [printed], May 1999 (D5029/26/1); and joint administrative receivers' report on Bryan Donkin Foundry Limited, Jun 1999 (D5029/26/2) - 1999
27 - Harry J Donkin's work diary noting visits etc. - 1891-1900
28 - Elevation of papermaking machine with hexagonal framing (blueprint) - pre 1902
29 - Correspondence with the Bryan Donkin Company referring to research in the company archives - 1941-1996
30 - Company histories of the Bryan Donkin Company Ltd. - 1912-1977
31 - Promotional brochures - c1970s
32 - Brochures and promotions - 20th cent
33 - Miscellaneous - 1797-20th cent
34 - Folder of papers relating to rotary engines and pumping machines - 1850-1900
35 - Folder of papers relating to compound plate-making and the Donkin Pantograph Engraving Machine with the Rose Engine - 1935-1987
36 - Donkin family history - 19th-20th cent
37 - Photographs - 19th-20th cent
38 - Artefacts - 19th cent
UL - Bryan Donkin and the Bryan Donkin Company Ltd: Unlisted material
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