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- 1964-1971 (Creation)
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3 folders
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File of correspondence on accounting and financial matters, relating to Comet Newspapers, and on staff matters. Documents include applications made for jobs within the company, and documents relating to the provision of pensions (1964-71); comments and reports on the company's relationship with other printing presses (1964); memorandum and articles of for Comet Newspapers Ltd. (1964); forecasts of weekly revenue and expenditure (nd); budget information (1970-1), and correspondence on shares held in the company, and loans agreed (1965-72).
Principal correspondents are Kenneth Searle and Ronald Richards, Director of Comet Newspapers.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott
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Some documents closed in line with the Data Protection Act.
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- Searle; Kenneth Arthur; managing director of MGEN (Subject)
- Richards; Ronald; newspaper director (Subject)
- Comet Newspapers Ltd (1964-); newspaper publishers and printers (Subject)
- Scott; Laurence Prestwich (1909-1983); chairman of the Manchester Guardian & Evening News Ltd (Subject)
- Guardian Media Group plc (1907-); newspaper proprietor (Subject)