Identity area
Reference code
GMG/1/3/3/1/2/2
Title
Dillon & Co
Date(s)
- 1968-1971 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
2 folders
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Scope and content
File of correspondence relating to the Guardian's shares (10%) in T Dillon & Co. Ltd. Includes an agreement made on the purchase of shares and memorandums on it's projected cash flow, and future expansion (1968) and correspondence relating to meetings of the Finance Committee.
Principal correspondents include Kenneth Searle (Managing Director of the Guardian, but also, until 1970, a director of Dillons); John Clay (appointed as K Searle's successor to the Dillons Board of Directors in 1970) and Peter Gibbings, all of the Guardian.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott
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- Gibbings; Sir; Peter Walter (1929-2021); chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News plc (Subject)
- Searle; Kenneth Arthur; managing director of MGEN (Subject)
- Scott; Laurence Prestwich (1909-1983); chairman of the Manchester Guardian & Evening News Ltd (Subject)
- Clay; John M; businessman (Subject)
- Guardian Media Group plc (1907-); newspaper proprietor (Subject)
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Catalogued