Description | Item 1: 175 year celebrations: correspondence and papers re anniversary celebrations in Chesterfield in Aug 1978, including correspondence with broadcast media companies (BBC and ITV), plans for advertisements on local buses, internal memorandum to staff, letters of invitation and thanks, newspaper clippings, requests for archival research, exhibition banners and photographs of display, with photocopies of original material used in display. Feb-Aug, 1978 Items 2-3: Machinery photographs: photographs of damaged Bryan Donkin Company machinery at various locations, e.g. British Sugar, Wissington, Norfolk. Some in poor condition., c1960s-1980s Item 4: Machinery photographs: promotional posters of variety of Bryan Donkin machinery, c1970s-1980s Item 5: Machinery photographs: photographs and diagrams of a Bryan Donkin valve machine. Some in poor condition., Item 6: Machinery photographs: machinery and components including some endorsed with product specifications and name of client, e.g. Chlorine compressor for ICI, boosters for Northern Gas Board in Carlisle, and several images of machine damage; also including photographs of an Aiken valve and a Rateau industrial unit in France, endorsed with notes in French, c1950-1982 Item 7: Machinery photographs: Bryan Donkin machinery in production and operation. Some in poor condition, c1960-1980s Item 8: Byran Donkin Company factory photographs: staff gatherings, and photographs of the Bryan Donkin factory in Chesterfield; also including machinery and plant in Malaysia, and Bryan Donkin Canada factory, Item 9: Machinery photograph large display photograph of a aBryan Donkin gas meter, bearing instructions in Arabic, c1970-1980s Item 10: Factory photograph: Large display photograph of a Donkin employee using design software on a computer, c1980s Item 11: Machinery photographic slides: Bryan Donkin Company machinery and components. 25 slides, 20th cent Item 12: Industrial Photograph negatives: large negatives showing Bryan Donkin machinery and the manufacturing product line, also including 2 sets of large negatives of machinery and a negative of the Bryan Donkin Canada factory, 20th cent Item 1: Three fragments of pages from Bryan Donkin's copy letter book, one dated 3 August 1810, two othoers without dates but probably c1815-1816, c1815-1816 |