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Photograph of ET Scott, CE Montague, JJ O'Neill, WP Crozier, J Bone, JR Scott, Mr CP Scott and LT Hobhouse.
Creator: Manchester Guardian; Picture Desk; Manchester Picture Library

Working report of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited. The working report starts with an introduction by the chairman of the directors, Laurence Prestwich Scott which starts with a tribute to his late father 'It is with great regret that I find myself in the position of writing this introduction. The death of Mr JR Scott on April 5th, 1949, not only robbed me of an exceptionally kind and understanding father but robbed the firm of a wise and experienced chief...'.

The report also features a review of the financial year; balance sheet; profit and loss account; appropriation account; an explanation of the accounts - part one, taxation; a historical view of the Guardian's circulation with a chart for circulation 1937-49 and map showing sales distribution throughout England; figures for circulation, sales and advertising (with advertising/editorial ratios and display/classified advertising revenue) for the Guardian, the Manchester Evening News and the Guardian Weekly; issues concerning the staff including headcount and gender breakdown by department, pensioners, working days lost and sick leave; a report on the Scott Trust with a photograph of trustees (R Ebbage, William Haley, LP Scott, the solicitor to the trustees, AP Wadsworth, RF Scott, CP Scott and L Montague) taken November 1948; and details of the materials used by the company.

An advertisement for the company's pension scheme features on the back cover.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited

Working report of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited. The working report includes: an introduction by the Chairman of the Directors, John Scott; figures for staff numbers, circulation, advertising, paper size, and trade results; an illustrated breakdown of materials used by the company; articles on the new contributory pension fund and machine room rebuilding.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited

Working report of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited. The working report includes:a list of directors; an introduction by the Chairman of the Directors, John Scott; a review of the financial year by LP Scott; explanations of the accounts - the balance sheet and the profit and loss accounts; a piece on the 'Newsprint Situation'; figures for circulation, advertising, staff numbers, and sickness reports; articles on rebuilding and new machinery and the Manchester Guardian Weekly in Germany; an illustrated breakdown of materials used by the company; and a backpage advertisement for the staff canteen.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited

Folder containing different accounting records produced by MGEN, 1924-1960 and also circulation and [editorial/advertising] contents, 1830-1844.

The first part of the folder contains MGEN annual reports and accounts with balance sheet, profit and loss account and auditors report, March 1924 - March 1960, signed by the MGEN directors and secretary (except 1934 where there are no signatures and 1935 where only the secretary has signed) and also by the auditors (except 1934 and 1935). The accounts are six-monthly, September 1923 - March 1929, and for the earlier years only the March accounts are signed. Only a balance sheet exists for September 1923. The report and accounts are in typescript format until 1930 when they are printed. The signatories are CP Scott, EA Montague, James Bone, WP Crozier, WJ Haley, JR Scott, AP Wadsworth, Robert Ebbage, TE Henry and Laurence Scott.

The second part of the folder contains typescript profit and loss account and balance sheets for the six months preceeding September 1929 and March 1930.

The third and fourth parts of the folder contains six-monthly profit and loss accounts for the Guardian Weekly and then the Guardian Commercial, March 1924 - March 1930. These are predominately typescript with some manuscript records. Three pages of manuscript calculations comparing the profit and loss of the Guardian Weekly and the Guardian Commercial, 1924-1928, are loose following the Guardian Weekly profit and loss account pages.

After the Guardian Commercial accounts are manuscript figures 1830-1845 used for accounting purposes. The contemporary records have been glued to the reverse of typescript receipt and expenditure accounts (crossed through) for the Guardian, Guardian Commercial, Guardian Weekly and Evening News comparing figures for May/June 1940 and 1941. The exact purpose of the figures is unknown as few titles exist but they generally relate to sales/circulation, editorial columns or advertising content. Page 1 contains quarterly total and average circulation figures for the Guardian, 1830-1844, with some indication of Wednesday and Saturday variations from 1836. Page 2 contains quarterly total and average figures, possibly for editorial lines or advertising content, 1830-1844. Page 3 indicates the number of stamps from Parliamentary returns, for the Guardian, Advertiser, Chronicle, Courier (from 1836) and Times newspapers, 1835-1841. Pages 4 and 5 contain weekly figures, 1830-1840 possibly for editorial lines and/or advertising content. Page 6 has a manuscript note on the increase in editorial columns, 1821-1945 and an untitled and undated chart of Wednesday and Saturday figures. Page 7 has a chart of Wednesday and Saturday figures, 1843-1844. Page 8 identifies the quantity of advertisements carried in the Guardian. Advertiser, Courier, Times, Chronicle, Herald, Aris' Gazette, Leeds Mercury, Gores' Advertiser, Myers' Advertiser and Liverpool Mercury, 1832-1835.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited

Accounting procedure summaries for the MGEN from October 1953. Summarises various internal procedures such as overdue accounts, dealing with debts, dealing with cash as well as dealing with Guardian and Evening News financial accounts separately. Also includes staff names associated with each procedure within their department.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited

Volume 1
Minutes of the Committee of Management of the Society and its sub-committee, 1932-1938

Volume 2
Minutes of the Committee of Management of the Society and its sub-committee, 5 March 1938 to 6 December 1941, which met to discuss sickness and pension payments to individual members of staff and also reported new members joining the Society and deaths of members. Includes list of holiday and sickness payment decisions made by the sub-committee at the back of the volume, 1935-1941.
Also includes letter to C Whitmore, Secretary of the Society, from John Russell Scott, giving 6 months notice terminating the agreement between MGEN and the Society, 25 June 1941, and memorandum of terms of the dissolution of the Society.
Following the termination of the Society the volume contains minutes of the Continuing Committee of the Society which carried on administration for those who were members fo the society when it was dissolved, 3 Feb 1942 to 24 Feb 1943; and reports of annual general meetings of the Widows' Pension Fund Committee, 1943-1966.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Collection of papers relating to the formation of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society, including:

• Draft typescript and final printed notice to all employees of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News from CP Scott, Russell Allen, JR Scott and ET Scott, outlining the proposal for the formation of the MGEN Society, covering the potential impact of the proposal on wages and conditions, the settlement of departmental disputes, pensions, sick pay, other benefits, the retiring fund, employment, apprentices and profit-sharing, and outlining the ballot procedure to follow (nd)
• A blank voting form (31 May 1926)
• A notice by JR Scott annoucing the outcome of the ballot (in favour) and calling for the appointment of departmental representatives to a provisional committee, to negotiate the terms of the new scheme (4 June 1926)
• Joint statement of resignation from 10 members of the Evening News staff [presumably opposed to the MGEN Society]: JR Smith, James McKay, RH Forrest, C Grindrod, AG Arundel, GR Walker, J Pollitt, Herbert Jones, William Baker and Charles A Chorlton (27 August 1926)
• Copy letter from W Hunt of the Manchester Typographical Association to the Father of the Chapel for the Manchester Evening News composing room, giving the Association's resolution that the new MGEN Society cannot be brought into line with the Association's rules, and so that Association members should tender their resignations from the company (28 August 1926)
• Copy of a letter sent to Mr Chorlton acknowledging his wish to retire (28 August 1926)
• Two copies of a printed notice to readers of the Manchester Evening News outlining the new scheme (stamped 6 September 1926)
• 11 pro-forma letters of resignation printed on cards titled 'Notice to Terminate Employment' [issued by the Typographical Association to its members employed by the Manchester Guardian amd Evening News]. The cards state conflict between the Association's agreement and the terms of the new MGEN Society as the reason for resignation, and have been filled out and signed by: Edwin Cade, William J Hollins, Stanley Carefull, WG Campbell, E Pritchard, Thomas Edward Armstrong, WR Hiles, H Sholtin, Joseph McCarthy, A Roberts and MJ Tanner (25 September 1926)
• An issue of the newspaper Labour's Northern Voice with a front page piece critcising the new MGEN Society (10 September 1926)
• Copy notice of from the proprietors of The Glasgow Herald, The Bulletin, The Evening Times and The Citizen stating that they will nolonger employ production staff who are trade union members and outlining their rates of pay and benefits (nd) and a typescript article and cover letter from Benn Brothers Ltd., publishers of trade and technical journals, expressing support for the new MGEN Society (23 September 1926)
• Two issues of the Typographical Circular, published by the Typographical Association, containing content relating to the new MGEN Society (October & November 1926)
• Members' leaflet from the Manchester Typographical Association announcing the next Quarterly Delegate Meeting and including a section entitled The Great Betraya, which includes a tribute to all Association members who have left their employment at MGEN and a list of the 'betrayers' - those who have left the Association to join the MGEN Society [November 1926]
• Letter from Charles Whitmore, General Secretary of the MGEN Society, defining the Society's rule for sickness notification in relation to a particular case (15 February 1927)
  Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Includes staff assurance scheme, August 1954. Also Includes staff assurance scheme master policy no 50794, 1970 with revised staff assurance scheme booklet 1967, and staff assurance scheme master policy no 1785, 1967. Contains staff list with staff salaries and yearly premiums relating to the pension fund.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Collection includes papers relating to the Scott Trust, personal correspondence, photographs, publications and newspaper cuttings, and other items such as material relating to the Guardian centenary dinner, the passport of JR Scott and death certificates for CP Scott and ET Scott.

Administrative/Biographical history: LP Scott, son of JR Scott, was born in Manchester, and educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. His first job was as sub-editor with the Financial News, followed by positions as personal assistant to the general manager of the News Chronicle, and circulation manager of the Star. He joined the Manchester Guardian and Evening News as editor in 1943. He acted as chairman from April 1949 to November 1973, and as managing director from September 1947 to October 1967. When Guardian Newspapers Limited (GNL) was established in 1967, he was appointed chairman.