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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

Interview with David Frost, rugby union correspondent for the Guardian. Conducted by Martin Rose on 6 December 2001. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording.

Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):

Disc 1:
Track 1
00.30 Joined the Guardian in 1957 as a sports sub in Manchester, became rugby correspondent in 1966
02.05 Educated at Oxford and played Rugby twice for them
04.00 Worked at a school in France for a year
06.10 After a year teaching back in London saw a job advertised for a sporting sub-editor at the Guardian
06.30 Interviews with Larry Montague, Alastair Hetherington and Bill Taylor
07.00 'Complete fluke' that he became a journalist
07.45 Started going to rugby on Saturdays
09.30 Transition from sub to rugby correspondent

10.25 First person sent to cover a Lions tour
12.45 'We saw things the players did which we wouldn't dream of reporting…and they saw things we did which they wouldn't spread around'.
13.30 Never officially appointed rugby correspondent.
14.30 Hoped for a pay raise after memo went around saying specialists would be given a raise - didn't get it
16.30 Expenses: never excessive at the Guardian, unlike correspondents from other papers
17.30 Moved to London in 1969
18.00 Continued to sub whilst doing rugby
18.00 Robert Armstrong took over as rugby correspondent in 1987
18.30 Heavy workload
19.45 Talks about size of sports dept./no. of pages produced at various points

21.00 1966-1987 Frost was 'no. 1 rugby correspondent' for the Guardian
21.20 Went on 7 Lions' tours - saw the world
24.10 Rugby pranks
25.30 Change in 'culture' of rugby - pranks to clean cut image
26.15 Levels of contact with office whilst on tour.
26.30 First tour: Cabled copy home, never heard from office, never saw the paper.
27.00 Changes in technology over time

32.00 Doesn't understand computers
32.45 Left Guardian in 1994. Mike Averis became sports editor
33.30 Changes witnessed between 1957 and 1994
35.45 Major events he witnessed 'from the office'
38.00 Accidentally in charge of sports desk on first night of London printing
39.00 Having left Guardian, not been involved in rugby

40.30 Fond memories of life at Guardian - lent him money to buy a house in Manchester
40.30 Generous employers, but didn't pay much

Documents, press cuttings and correspondence relating to the appointment of WP Crozier as editor including:
Cutting from the Guardian on the retirement of CP Scott, 23 January 1930;
CP Scott Memorial Number, 5 January 1932;
Letter, 2 pages, from MW Fodor to WP Crozier, 4 May 1932;
Letter from I Brown to WP Crozier, 5 May 1932;
Letter from H Dore to WP Crozier, 6 May 1932;
Letter from F Attenborough to WP Crozier, 6 May 1932;
Cutting from the Guardian of the announcement of WP Crozier as editor, 7 May 1932;
Cutting from Times of appointment of WP Crozier as editor, 7 May 1932;
Cutting from the Manchester Evening News of appointment of WP Crozier as editor, 7 May 1932;
Letter from H Laski to WP Crozier, 7 May 1932;
Letter from M Montague to WP Crozier, 7 May 1932;
Letter from E Sharp to WP Crozier, 7 May 1932;
Letter from L Montague, 7 May 1932;
Letter from Durrants to WP Crozier, 7 May 1932;
Invoice from Durrants for press clipping service, 10 May 1932;
Instruction from WP Crozier to Durrants to clip all items relating to himself;
Letter from H Sidebotham to WP Crozier, 8 May 1932;
Letter from W Eames to WP Crozier, 8 May 1932;
Letter from H Sacher to WP Crozier, 11 May 1932;
Cutting from World's Press News of appointment of WP Crozier as editor, 12 May 1932;
Cutting from World's Press News, 'Mr WP Crozier Appointed Editor of Manchester Guardian', 12 May 1932;
Cutting from Newspaper World of appointment of WP Crozier as editor, 14 May 1932 (2 copies);
Letter from W Haley to WP Crozier, May 1932;
Letter from JL Garvin to WP Crozier, 29 November 1932;
Reply to the above letter, typescript, from WP Crozier to JL Garvin, 4 December 1932;
A first edition of 'The English Newspaper 1622-1932' by Stanley Morison, inscribed to WP Crozier on his appointment as editor, 1932.
Creator: Crozier, William Percival (1879-1944); newspaper editor