Identity area
Reference code
GMG/1/3/3/1/2/1/2
Title
Industry, general
Date(s)
- 1963-1969 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
2 folders
Context area
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
File titled 'Looking Ahead', containing reports and correspondence on the newspaper industry as a whole; on Comet's perceived competitors, and copies of minutes made at meetings held by the company directors.
It also contains correspondence relating to a proposed new weekly newspaper, in the Reading, Kent and Southend areas (1964), a project elsewhere referred to as the 'Looking Ahead' or 'Richards' project.
Principle correspondent is Ronald Richards, Director of Comet Newspapers.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott
Creator: Searle; Kenneth, Arthur
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Subject and chronological
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Open
Closed until
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Notes area
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Name access points
- 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)
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Description control area
Status
Catalogued