Articles and Memorandum of Association, Abstract of Accounts, Company returns, Certificates of Incorporation and Change of Name, Directors reports, Register of Members, Photograph albums, Visitor Book, Press Cuttings, '50 Years On' Publication, Share C...

• Reference:GB 254 MS 199/18
• Dates of Creation:1929-2000
• Name of Creator:
  Bonar Long & Co. Ltd

• Scope and Content

  Articles and Memorandum of Association, Abstract of Accounts, Company returns, Certificates of Incorporation and Change of Name, Directors reports, Register of Members, Photograph albums, Visitor Book, Press Cuttings, '50 Years On' Publication, Share Capital Company
  Bundle of Articles of Association: Bonar Cruickshank Power Engineering Limited: Preliminary (4 items) 11th September 1929 Memorandum and Articles of Association (1 item) 17th September 1929 Bundle of Memorandum and Articles of Association: Bonar, Long and Company Limited (2 items) 1936 Abstract of Accounts: Rissik, Long & Company Limited (1 item) 1936-1937 File labelled 'Company Returns' including items such as; annual returns (1936-1995), share documents (allotted shares, share contracts etc) (1937-1962), Directors and Managers accounts (1 file) 1937-1994 Envelope enclosing Certificate of Incorporation (1936) and Change of Name (1 item) 1938-1981 Bundle of Abstract of Accounts: Bonar, Long & Company (8 items) 1937-1944 Bundle of Directors Reports and Accounts: Bonar, Long & Company Limited 1947-1980 Bundle of Abstract of Accounts and Directors Reports (26 items) 1947-1980 Bundle of reports by Directors and Abstract of Accounts: Bonar, Long and Company Limited (35 items) 1953-1968 Bundle of booklets entitled Memorandum and Article of Association: Bonar, Long & Company Limited (6 item) 1936-1968 Folder labelled 'Memorandum and Articles of Association' (1 item) 1972-1976 Envelope containing share certificates (1 item) 1977-1987 Bundle of Directors Reports and Accounts 1981-1984 Bundle of Directors Report and Accounts: Bonar Cruickshank Power Engineering Limited (5 items) 1978-1984 Folder labelled 'Acquisition of Bonar Long by National Industri A/S' (1 item) 1985 Accounts: Bonar Long Limited (1 item) 1985 Combined Company Register of members (1 item) 1985-1999 Bundle of Accounts: Bonar Cruikshank Power Engineering Limited (3 items) 1985-1986 Bonar, Long & Company Limited '50 Years On'. Publication celebrating the 50 Years that the company has been active (1 item) [1986] Visitor Book consisting of name, date of visit, address and signature of individuals visiting the company (1 item) 1986-1989 Photograph album containing photographs of the 50th anniversary celebration of Bonar, Long Limited, Dundee (1 item) Friday 27th March 1987 Bundle of Agreement: NI Transformers, Cruikshank & Partners limited, John David Cruikshank, James Jack McNaughtan and Bonar Cruickshank Power Engineering Limited (2 items) 22 June 1987 Accounts: N I Transformers (UK) Limited (Formerly Bonar Long Limited) (1 item) 1987 Bundle of Accounts for EB Power Projects (UK) Limited (2 items) 1987-1988 Book of Press Cuttings relating to activities and events of the company (1 item) 1987-1995 Bundle of Change of Name certificates (3 envelopes) 1987-1996 Photograph album containing photographs of the visit from HRH Crown Prince Harald of Norway (1 item) Friday 14th October 1988 Letter informing that a trade mark has been registered under NI Transformers (UK) Limited 1989 Letter allowing company to change name (1 item) 1991 Folder entitled 'Share Capital Company 19391' containing documents about the increase and transfer of shares 1991-1995 Photograph album containing photographs official opening of ABB Power T&D Ltd, Dundee (1 item) Friday 30th June 2000

• 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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