Papers of John Blythe Kinross, relating to various financial undertakings., 1927-1969.
Scope and Contents
Containing:
British Corosit Button Co: copies of a speech made by Kinross at a creditors’
and shareholders’ meeting, 1931.
Old Gate Estates Ltd: transcript of the evidence of Kinross in the case against the valuers Topliss, Harding and Russell, 1939.
Crown Flour Mills: Printed report and accounts, 1939, 1942.
Public Benefit Boot Co: Printed note concerning the board, ca. 1940.
Col W A Bristow, the inventor of coalite: Autographed copy of Scope for July 1943, carrying an article about him.
Texas Land and Mortgage Co: papers connected with the attempt by Sir Denys Lowson to take it over, including Kinross’s attack on Lowson at a shareholders’ meeting in 1944.
Sterling poultry: Printed papers, 1955-60, with two letters of G G Belfield, 1953, 1958.
Technical Development Capital: correspondence of Kinross with Sir John Benn, 1962-5.
London Atlantic Investment Trust: propectus, 1966.
City of London Real Property Co: take over document by the Land Securities Investment Trust, 1969.
Miscellaneous printed prospectuses, 1927-8, 1936, including Beecham’s Pills, and the Ford Motor Company.
Prospectuses, 1928: examples of near fradulent issues.
Steel Industries of Great Britain Ltd: History of the formation of the Company, 1929, by Peter Morison.
Dates
- Creation: 1927-1969.
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
1 Folders
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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