Records relating to individuals

The collection includes correspondence, biographical details, photographs, press cuttings, patent details and other work-related records for many directors and other individuals connected with the companies that came to form part of the Renolds group, together with talks, papers, publications etc. by them. These records include material for the following:

W.L. Barrows (BWL).

Rex Bate (BR).

Cecil Thomas Bayliss (BCT).

Oscar Bertoya (BO): records including world tour log and commentary to tour film, reminiscences, Christmas Messages as M.D. 1954-1961 (RC), details of system of classification charts for industrial marketing (RC, R+CC).

Arthur Brampton (BA).

Donald A. Brampton (BDA): correspondence with C.G. Renold, 1946-1952, relating to Board membership of Renold and Coventry Chain Co. Ltd. and Renold Chains Ltd.

N.J. Clarkson (CNJ).

Roland Dunkerley (DR).

A.C. Edwards (EAC): correspondence with Arthur Brampton and C.G. Renold, relating to S.A. des Etablissements Brampton and the Boards of Renold and Coventry Chain Co. Ltd. and Renold Chains Ltd., 1938-1946.

S.J.W. Emerson (ESJW).

Walter Vernon Foley (FWV).

J.A. Ford (FJA).

Edwin Garlick (GE).

John Philip Halpin (HJP).

Sir Patrick Hamilton (HP).

E.E. Hempsall (HEE).

R.O. Herford (HRO).

Alick Sargeant Hill (HAS).

John Holroyd (HJ).

H.G. Jenkins (JHG): records including letter to Charles Renold on organisational questions, 1924 and other correspondence, 1949 and 1957.

Edward Ormonde Liebert (LEO).

Emil Hermann Siegismund Liebert ('Emil Liebert') (LE, LEHS, LEM): records including agreement with H.A.E. Liebert on patents etc. relating to the application of electrical devices to machine tools, 1899.

George Charles Cecil Liebert (LGC, LGCC): records including correspondence with Alfred Herbert about amalgamations in the machine tool industry, 1926-1927.

Henry Anton Emil Liebert (LHAE).

Sir Josiah Mason (MH): records including biographical press cuttings, 1929-1968. Ernest W. Mills (MEW): records including autobiography, 1903-1974.

J.L. Norton (NJL) of Norton Motors Ltd.: correspondence and newscuttings relating to transmission chains.

E.J. Parish (PEJ): records including correspondence with Sir Charles Renold relating to Renold Chains Ltd. Board membership, 1959-1963 and other matters, 1961.

C.A. Percival (PCA): records including report on Administrative Staff College course 1948, lectures, 1953-1954 and papers relating to the New Group Organisation 1967.

James Petrie (PJA).

Sir Charles G. Renold (RCG): records including papers relating to studies at Cornell University, U.S.A. 1904-1906, reminiscences of Brook Street Works in 1910, collected papers 1921-1964 (6 volumes), private correspondence with Hans Renold 1926-1943, notes for book on joint consultation 1929, details of consultancy agreement with Renold and Coventry Chain Co. Ltd. circa 1944 (R+CC), notebook used in the course of 'Burrows Committee' investigation of National Coal Board 1948, memorandum on education and training for accountancy circa 1958, papers relating to Manchester University and Manchester College of Science and Technology 1950s and 1960s, papers relating to visits to the U.S.A. and Canada in 1960 and Sydney in 1965, item relating to Leigh Atherton and Tyldesley Productivity Committee 1962, correspondence with R.H. Taylor relating to joint consultation 1967, centenary year correspondence with members of Renold family 1979, and extensive press cuttings, speeches, published articles, photographs, etc.

Hans Renold (RH): records including notebooks and drawings relating to early studies at the Polytechnic School in Zurich, 1870-1871, certificates and other personal and genealogical papers 1852-1943, notes relating to journeys in America (also drawings) and Germany in and after 1891, photographs of machinery designed 1899-1912, correspondence with E.G. Hoffman circa 1900, autobiography 'Unfinished Recollections' (typed), personal correspondence with H.G. Jenkins 1929-1942, brief notes on the Renold company and the subsidiaries Renold Chains Ltd. and Renold Erzeugnisse GmbH and biographical notes.

John Henry Reynolds (RJH): biographical study (first principal of Manchester College).

Sir Thomas Buston Robson (RTB).

F.T. Stanford (SFT).

L.J. Tolley (TLJ): records including reports of visits to Australia and New Zealand, 1967-1970, collected speeches 1957-1981 (4 volumes), press cuttings and miscellaneous published articles by and about him.

W.S.C. Tully (TWSC): records including press articles on Ruthin Castle, private clinic for executives.

Dr. H. Walker (WH): records including photographic record of visit to

South Africa 1955.

W. Walker (WW): records including autobiography.