Staff and plant photographs, negatives of technical drawings, TMA schedule, Pension and Insurance scheme deed, Shareholder records, Enron Power contract, Sales Director Administration Manual, Illustrated history of company

• Reference:GB 254 MS 199/17
• Dates of Creation:1930s-1992
• Name of Creator:
  Bonar Long & Co. Ltd

• Scope and Content

  Photographs of staff and plant (1 folder) 1980s-1990s Negatives of Technical Drawings (1 box) c1980s? Bundle of loan agreements c1968-c 1971 TMA Schedule (1 book) c1970s Correspondence file 1992 Pension and Insurance Scheme Deed 1963 Bangladesh file 1988-1990 Folder. 'Resolutions and notices' (seems mainly to be shareholder records) 1930s- c1973 Enron Power Contract (1 file) 1991-1992 Sales Director Administration Manual 1975-1977 Illustrated history of the company on the occasion of its 50th Anniversary 1986. [Donated by David Middleton, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Dundee, formerly MS199/1 and MS 15/159] [1986]

• Administrative / Biographical History

  George Bonar, Managing Director of Low & Bonar, invited Tom Long, an electrical engineer, and his colleague, Henrik Rissik, to Dundee to launch their new company for manufacturing mercury arc rectifiers, transformers and electric arc welding equipment, at premises in part of the Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd., Dundee factory, a subsidiary of Low and Bonar. The lease for the new company, Bonar Long & Co. Ltd, began in October 1936. In 1994 the company became part of ABB Power T&D Ltd, based in Aberdeen, maker of telegraph and telephone apparatus and equipment
  Sources: http://www.scran.ac.uk and https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bonar_Long_and_Co

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• Note

  George Bonar, Managing Director of Low & Bonar, invited Tom Long, an electrical engineer, and his colleague, Henrik Rissik, to Dundee to launch their new company for manufacturing mercury arc rectifiers, transformers and electric arc welding equipment, at premises in part of the Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd., Dundee factory, a subsidiary of Low and Bonar. The lease for the new company, Bonar Long & Co. Ltd, began in October 1936. In 1994 the company became part of ABB Power T&D Ltd, based in Aberdeen, maker of telegraph and telephone apparatus and equipment
  Sources: http://www.scran.ac.uk and https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bonar_Long_and_Co

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