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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

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

1 envelope and 3 folders of correspondence and papers relating to LP Scott's association, and membership of the Newspaper Society. Envelope labelled 'Newspaper Society: 1960/67'; folder 1 labelled 'Newspaper Society: General'; folder 2 labelled 'Newspaper Society: Advertising Matters from Jan. 1947, and folder 3 labelled 'Newspaper Society: General, 1947-1951'.

Envelope contents include correspondence with Kenneth Searle, and FW Cranmer (President) of the Newspaper Society. Subjects discussed include the provision of pension rights, industrial disputes and labour negotiations. 1961-1968.

Folder 1 includes correspondence with HR Davies (Director) and LL Jones (Labour Advisor) of the society. Subjects discussed include the payment of subscription fees; advertising and production statistics; the shortage of stereotypers, and the London Newspaper Strike of 1955. Also included is a copy of the Newspaper Society Rules (1953, printed). 1952-1959.

Folder 2 contains letters from the Newspaper Society on the Finance Bill of 1947 (subtitled 'Advertising Tax'); on a Voluntary Plan for Limitation of Certain Advertising- concerning rationing of goods subject to purchase tax (1948); correspondence with Leonard Fletcher, Public Relations Officer of the society, on a contribution to Advertisers' Aid (1948), and correspondence on giving a talk to the Sheffield Publicity Club. 1947-51.

Folder 3 includes correspondence with HG Milner, and with LL Jones, HR Davies, and FW Cranmer (President) of the society. Subjects discussed include the provision of pension rights, industrial disputes and labour negotiations. Also included are financial statements made to the National Labour Force enquiry, giving details of all wages paid by the Guardian in 1951.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Correspondence and papers concerning the [abandoned] proposal to print an edition of The Observer in Manchester. The bulk of the correspondence dates from the years 1959-1960.

File includes correspondence with Francis Mathew of the Times, on print charging; with the Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers, the National Union of Press Telegraphists, the National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers, The National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, the National Union of Journalists, and the Typographical Association on the same; with JE Berridge, David Holt, Francis Mathew and Tristan Jones, all of The Observer, on the firming up of specific requirements; copies of cost estimates and summaries, and a quotation.

Also included are copies of minutes, on meetings held amongst Guardian staff, with staff of The Observer, and with trade unions, concerning the proposal. Issues raised include suggested basis of charging for the project, printing capacity at 3 Cross Street, Manchester, and rent charges. Guardian staff consulted include Kenneth Searle, Horace Milner, WJ Lascelles and JH McKelvie.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Contains 2 envelopes, titled 'Production Management:1948/68' and 'Production, Miscellaneous: 1962/70'. Records contained are mainly financial and administrative in content.

The first envelope contains correspondence with Horace Milner and JP Sinclair of the Guardian's production department, relating to individual and general staff matters, and Newspaper Chapel negotiations; notes of meetings held within the department; a proposal written by Milner on the cost of London printing; draft job advertisements for the position of Works Manager, and on the appointment of Milner's successor, JP Sinclair.

The second envelope contains notifications of staff changes; an Industry Diary, comprising of newspaper clippings taken over a 3 months period, which relate to production issues across the market, and compiled by JP Sinclair, and correspondence with the latter on matters as diverse as newsprint quality and holiday rotas.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Three folders, titled 'Publishers Policy, General 1947-64', 'Publishers Policy, Educational Weekly Project 1958' and 'Publishers Policy, Survey of Industry 1951-58'.

Folder titled 'Publishers Policy, General 1947-64' includes correspondence, predominantly with readers, on newspaper policy. Subjects include joint publishing venture proposals with Reynolds News, and Ernest Kay of John O' London's, Literary Periodicals Ltd, amongst others (all rejected), and correspondence with Lord Frederick Burnham on the printing of the Sunday Telegraph, for one day only, at the Guardian's Cross Street premises in Manchester, on 26 March 1961.

Folder titled 'Publishers Policy, Educational Weekly Project 1958', contains correspondence and papers on the proposed publishing of a weekly education paper. Documents include an assessment of current provision (predominately the Times Educational Supplement), and discussion between LP Scott and both Alastair Hetherington and Kenneth Searle, on the same; documents relating to the costing of the project, and projected revenue; a typed memorandum by Scott, commenting on the proposal, dated 21 April 1958; projected revenue figures drawn up by WJ Lascelles, and a letter giving circulation details of the main educational supplements currently published (including Teachers' World), provided by the London Press Exchange Ltd and sent to the same; second report on the project, by Scott, dated 30 April 1958, and appendix added by Searle, in May of that same year; report on survey conducted amongst the Chief Education Officers, on current provision, and their thoughts on the project (undated) and a revised assessment of the project, leading to it's ultimate rejection, dated May 1958.

Folder titled 'Publishers Policy - Survey of Industry 1951-58' contains correspondence and papers relating to the Survey of Industry, published annually, by the Guardian, for these years. Correspondents include Scott, AP Wadsworth, J Anderson, Richard Fry, W MacMillan, HG Milner, W Lascelles, H Roscoe and R Grey, all of the Guardian.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

2 folders, arranged by subject and titled 'Thomson/Times, Union Negotiations' and 'Thomson/Times, Redundancies'.

Contents of folder 1 include correspondence with trade unions, and with Eric Cheadle of the Times on the same. Trade unions include National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers, Printing and Kindred Trades Federation, National Union of Journalists, Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) and the National Graphical Association. Documents also included consist of statements and memoranda made to the unions, and other progress reports.

Folder 2 contains correspondence with the trade unions, relating to staff redundancies made between December 1966 and May 1967, and negotiating terms.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Signed minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of Guardian Newspapers Limited (GNL) from 21 November 1967 (first meeting) until 18 December 1974. Not indexed.
Meetings were held at 192 Grays Inn Road, London or 3 Cross Street, Manchester.

Present or attending the meetings are (in order of appearance): PW Gibbings; Alastair Hetherington; MGA Jack; HG Milner; GP Taylor; WH Thomas; JC Markwick; Stanley Porter; BLB Hutchings (Lovell, White & King); JJT Stephens (Lovell, White & King); FA Ravenscroft (Cooper Bros & Co); MA Anderson; JHM Kelvie; HC Thompson; JM Cole; RS Rix; NH Thompson; and HJ Abbiss.

The first meeting of the board of directors records the initial administration of the new company including: the incorporation of the company; appointment of directors and secretary; recording of the registered office of the company as 3 Cross Street, Manchester; recording of the company bank account to be opened; recording the common seal of the company (impressed into minutes); and the transfer of shares and the register of members.

Regular items discussed at the meetings include newspaper sales and promotions; advertisement sales; production (including Lancashire Colour Printers and newsprint supplies); the company's financial position and budget; editorial appointments; strategy and development.

Other items discussed include (with year of first recording):
Guardian Weekly (1967); Guardian Business Services (1967); impact of devaluation of pound sterling (1967); price increases (1968); acquisitions and shares; editorial strategy (spring 1968); investigation of colour printing (1968); content aimed at women (1968); new building at Deansgate, Manchester (1968); facsimile transmission (1968); Autumn Plans including staff and layout changes - supporting paper (July 1968); readership figures; facsimile production (1968); negotiations with NUJ/NPA (1968); young readers (1968); university exam results (1969); Film 'News Story' (1969); Saturday papers (1969); Guardian's 150th anniversary (1970); Northprint Ltd (1970); wholesalers dispute (1970); commercial radio (1971); European syndication (1971); group structure (1972); investigations into Guardian sharing The Observer's premises at Printing House Square, London (1972); Guardian Study Vacations (part of Guardian Business Services) (1972); typeface change (1973); Gemini News Service (1973); impact of Price Commission (1973); fuel supplies for distribution (1973); shortening working weeks (1973); London printing, contract with The Times (1973); Peter Preston's visit to USA to investigate new technology production (1974).

The minutes of two meetings with separate item numbering sequences are also filed in this volume:
29 December 1967: Extraordinary General Meeting of GNL, 3 Cross Street, Manchester, concerning the increasing of the capital of the company.
5 April 1973: Meeting of a sub-committee of GNL, 192 Grays Inn Road, London, concerning the proposal to purchase Gemini News Service.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited