Bonar Long & Co. Ltd, electrical plant manufacturers, Dundee

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  • Reference
    • GB 254 MS 199
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1930s-1990s
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • 17 boxes

Scope and Content

Minutes, correspondence, company records, financial papers, photographs, microfilm, cups.

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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Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Paper

Archivist's Note

Description compiled by Jennifer Johnstone, Assistant Archivist, December 2011 Updated by Kenneth Baxter, March 2014

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Catalogued

MS 199