Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
- Reference:GB 254 MS 102/12/4
- Dates of Creation:1847
- Physical Description:1 bundle
Scope and Content
Correspondence: 1846-1847. Miscellaneous topics pertaining to engineering and business matters together with current, general and family affairs. Correspondents and contents include:
John Smith, Seagate (letter of introduction for David Boyack); William Nairne, Milnhaugh (his railway engines and a newspaper attack on him);
William Anderson, India Street, Montrose, (Position for Hackle maker in France); James Spence, Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth (Wishes PC happy New Year and informs him of his promotion; Submission of drawings and specifications to the naval dockyards by Ward Foundry; Orders and employment of John Carmichael, Discusses life at the dockyard)
William Cruikshanks, Dundee (request for loan);
Shaw, Reid & McLachlan (relates to legal case);
Allan Fordyce, Haubordin, nr Calais (comments, critically, on David Baxter’s paper to the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Dundee against the Ten Hour Bill; refers to competition from cheap labour in Europe with figures for French workers including Fordyce’s version of wage rates in France);
David Greig 166 Rose Street, Edinburgh (Letters relating to death of John Adamson in wreck of the Brechin Castle*, in which Baxter Brothers had an interest, and legal position of his siblings as heirs)
Trunbull & Co , Claverhouse Bleachfield (poor state of yarn); George Whyte, St Rollox Flax Mills, (seeking position for his brother); J Stewart, Blairgowrie Mills (flax dressing prices); David Peter, Salford (Has left Thomas Marsden’s employ following a dispute, but has completed work on machines for PC; reasons for leaving Marsden’s employment and new position with a railway [Buxton Railway?]); Jas. Paterson, Dundee (requesting money for William Nairne);
W. Ransley, Box and Ivory Rule Maker, 20 Stangate, Westminster Bridge, London (measuring instruments);
George Lowry, Belfast (the performance of a competitor’s machine); Thomas Greenwood, Wellington Foundry, Leeds (Machinery matters); James Grandison, (McBride & Co’s claim for a patent predating PCs)
Patent disputes in Britain and France.
D Cruikshank, Greenacres Moor (3rd August, 1847, describes a parliamentary election at Oldham [1847 general election] and subsequent riots);
Troops being sent to Ireland and concern for the situation in ‘high quarters’.
Tests on canvas failing navy test, December 1847.
Jacquard looms.
[51 items]
*SS Brechin Castle was lost with all hands off Swansea in February 1847. John Adamson was her second mate. See also MS 73/2Access Information
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Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, April 2011
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