Daniel Buchanan & Sons Ltd, including T. Gaunt [Rainwear] Ltd and Don Coatings (Scotland) Ltd

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  • Reference
    • GB 254 MS 100/9
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1957-1984
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • 0.32 linear meters

Scope and Content

Company records, 1961-1967; .accounts, 1967-1972; private ledgers. 1965-1984, miscellaneous financial records,1961-1977; miscellaneous legal and business records, 1957-1984

Administrative / Biographical History

Daniel Buchanan & Sons Ltd were manufacturers of leathercloth and PVC coated paper based in Prestonpans. By 1965 the company was insolvent. As the firm was a major supplier to Low Brothers, the Don and Low group were reluctant to allow it to go bankrupt and so took over its running. In about 1967 Buchanan & Sons was linked, for administrative purposes, with another Don company, T. Gaunt (Rainwear) Ltd which specialised in the making of PVC garments. The Buchanan name seems to have ceased to be used around 1984, a period when Don and Low underwent internal restructuring. T. Gaunt seems to have been subsumed by Don and Low (Packaging) Ltd at by this same time.

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Note

Daniel Buchanan & Sons Ltd were manufacturers of leathercloth and PVC coated paper based in Prestonpans. By 1965 the company was insolvent. As the firm was a major supplier to Low Brothers, the Don and Low group were reluctant to allow it to go bankrupt and so took over its running. In about 1967 Buchanan & Sons was linked, for administrative purposes, with another Don company, T. Gaunt (Rainwear) Ltd which specialised in the making of PVC garments. The Buchanan name seems to have ceased to be used around 1984, a period when Don and Low underwent internal restructuring. T. Gaunt seems to have been subsumed by Don and Low (Packaging) Ltd at by this same time.

Archivist's Note

Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, December 2009

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