File 3 - Newspaper statistics

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Folders of sales comparisons and statistics, broadly relating to the financial implications of printing in London alongside Manchester, including memoranda from William J Haley, TE Henry, HG Milner, Kenneth Searle and Alastair Hetherington amongst others.

These comprise a folder labelled 'Old information suitable for Working Reports' (1); folder labelled 'Monthly Charts' (2), containing charts relating to newspaper costs and revenue, 1934-1954; Haley folder labelled 'Records' (3), c. 1934; JR Scott folder (WJ Haley crossed out) labelled 'Old Statistics' (4) containing graphs of Guardian advertising 1920-1934, paper contracts 1939-1941 etc.; folder labelled 'Advertising Rates' (5), containing list of classified advertisements placed 1935-1948; folder containing information on weekly wage rates, including information published by the Newspaper Society on the minimum weekly rates of wages payable to employees of provincial newspapers, and a grading agreement for staff, c. 1943 (6); folder containing statistics and target figures for successful profit levels, annotated by LP Scott (7); folder containing reports on the feisibility of merging The Manchester Evening Chronicle and the Manchester Evening News (8), including correspondence with Hetherington, Haley, Milner and Henry, amongst others; folder labelled 'Deansgate Project' (9), containing proposals for and against moving premises by Scott and others, and including a report titled 'Looking Ahead', questioning the role of newspapers in light of commercial television, and other developments; report on the accommodation problem as at the end of April 1957 (10); folder containing documents titled 'Operation T' and 'Operation K', concerning proposals for the amalgumation of the Manchester Evening Chronicle with the Manchester Evening News (11); printed booklet entitled 'Ideals and Obligations- Tribune Tower Hall of Inscriptions' (published Tribune Co. 1931) with report on 'London Printing Project' enclosed, April 1961; memorandum by Scott, addressing 'some of the problems facing us' and discussing the proposed merger with the Manchester Evening Chronicle in detail (13).
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

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