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The Working Report New Building Supplement contains an update on the MGEN building and accommodation project.

It includes information on the appointment of Harry M Fairhurst (of Harry S Fairhurst & Son) as architect to the project and introduces the MGEN team as HG Milner as controller of technical development; AM Harvie as controller of building development; FH Ware as technical manager; KA Searle as chair of the committee; and S Porter as secretary of the committee. Photographs of Milner, Harvie, Ware and Porter are included. Other articles concern the size of the Manchester Evening News; colour in the newspapers; the building of the Miami Herald (with photograph); departmental consultation on accommodation requirements; and illuminated work-flow scoreboards used at Svenska Dagbladet in Stockholm.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited

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

Folder labelled 'Company Publicity' containing copies of correspondence, and meeting minutes with Cross-Courtnay Advertising (1949-1950), The London Press Exchange (1950-1964), and with SH Benson Ltd Advertising (1964-undated).

Contents include, report titled 'The Guardian as a Product', 30 April 1964, by The London Press Exchange, with comments by Kenneth Searle and Alastair Hetherington, and with reference made to newspaper contributors Neville Cardus and Alistair Cooke; 'A Report on the Advertising Covering the Election Period September/ October, 1964'; copies of advertising pulls published in The New Statesman, The Observer, Granta University Magazine, The Evening Standard, The Times Literary Supplement, The Times Educational Supplement and Advertisers Weekly, 5 September- 27 November 1964, with a printed 'Schedule of Advertising' (labelled appendix b), 'Tam Ratings' (appendix c), 'Press Releases' (appendix d) and 'Pamphlet' on From now Until Polling Day (appendix e); letter giving notice of a termination of the advertising arrangement made with The London Press Exchange, 3 July 1964, and letter confirming the services of SH Benson Ltd as a replacement, 16 July 1964; note on 'Guardian Promotion', made by Searle, 18 April 1963 and accompanying correspondence with Rex Hearn; arrangements for printing a 'Guardian Publicity Booklet', July 1964; section of correspondence labelled 'Notes used in discussions for the autumn 1963 campaign'; booklet entitled 'The Guardian 1963/4', concerning promotional plans; memo to the Guardian circulation department on 'Guardian Publicity and Promotion', 20 December 1962; report by The London Press Exchange titled 'Advertising Proposals 1962/1963'; note by WJ Lascelles, indicating that the contract made between the Guardian and The London Press Exchange should be severed, due to increased costs; papers concerning readership surveys, undertaken by Research Services Ltd; note to London Press Exchange on 'What does the Guardian offer of its own to the prospective reader?', by Hetherington, 5 March 1961; printed document titled 'London Printing, Progress Report', 8 March 1961; correspondence with the public, over specific advertising campaigns, 1959; survey on 'Cambridge 'Undergraduates, 1959' by Research Services Ltd; correspondence with The London Press Exchange on a report entitled 'The Mass Media and Social Class in Great Britain', September 1959; correspondence concerned with the advertising arrangement held with ABC television, 1959; general correspondence with The London Press Exchange concerning advertising campaigns and the use of straplines, 1957-1959; report titled 'Manchester Guardian, Advertising Proposals January- April 1955'; correspondence with the public concerning specific campaigns, 1952-1954, and correspondence with Cross-Courtenay Ltd. Advertising Agency, 1949-1950, including a table of press advertising for the Guardian, 19 March 1949- 21 May 1949.

Folder labelled 'Company Public Relations, 1960-65', containing miscellaneous correspondence, concerning company PR fuctions and organisation, and rearrangement of the marketing department, 31 October 1960- 7 January 1965, with some undated.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Folder containing miscellaneous advertising records, including correspondence with W McMillan on advertising personnel (amongst other topics); 'Advertising Department Progress Report' by PA Management Consultants Ltd, 18 October 1967; diagram showing hierarchy of staff members, titled 'The Guardian Advertising Department'; ' memo regarding the appointment of Ronald Miller to a senior position within Anglia Television, November 1967; invitations sent out to various Advertising and Marketing companies, requesting their attendance at the Chairman's cocktail parties of 3 and 5 July, 1967, with replies; correspondence between LP Scott and Kenneth Searle and MacMillan, regarding ABC subscriptions and charitable causes, November 1966; information on advertising rates and comments on newspaper comparisons in the field, 1964; correspondence with AD George and Searle on advertising rates in the Sunday Times, July 1964 copy of 'The Journal of The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce', including a highlighted article on The Social and Economic Context of Advertising; letter regarding a civil claim against the Guardian, with notes by Scott, February 1965; 'Foreign Advertisement Department', figures covering the financial year April 1963 - March 1964; 'General Report on the Response to the Public Appointment Columns of the Manchester Guardian', February 1948; letters on classified advertising rates; 'Display Advertisement Revenue, Increases for 1953 over 1952' by Scott, 1 March 1954; 'Joining the Guardian', booklet written for new employees, containing charts showing the staff heirarchy for different departments, June 1969.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Envelope titled 'Chief Accountant , 1954-1969' containing correspondence with, and papers from Cooper Brothers and Co, accountants, as well as Kenneth Searle, Horace Milner and others.

Subjects discussed include the appointment of staff and salaries; staff expenses and the allocation of company credit cards; the purchase of tax revenue certificates; Branch Office Audits; advertising statistics; 'Report on the Proposal to Use a 555 Plugged Programme Computer in Conjunction with Existing ICT Equipment'; paying wages by cheque and newsletters of The Advertising Association (May and July 1966).
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

File of papers and correspondence relating to LP Scott's role as Joint Managing Director (with Kenneth Searle) of Manchester News Centre Ltd and Manchester Exhibition Halls Ltd - both wholly owned subsidiaries of the Guardian.

Included are draft copies of the memorandum and articles of association for both companies (1964), and correspondence on the same; correspondence with BLB Hutchings of Lovell, White and King solicitors on the same; notices of annual general meetings held by the Manchester News Centre Ltd (1965-1973) and reports on the same, and LP Scott's letter of resignation, dated 7th September 1973.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Some undated.

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

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

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