Collection 1: Meggitt business records, family papers, and photographs, 1867-1999

MLMSS 8600/Boxes 1-5
MLMSS 8600/Box 6X

sub-fonds

1867-1999

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Clippings, Ephemera, Photographs

431660

1.39 metres of textual material (5 boxes and 1 outsize box)

BOX 1
Share Ledger
Includes index, ca. 1943-1953

Folder 1
Harold Meggitt correspondence including resignation; Meggitt Ltd report of accounts; report of proceedings first Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of Meggitt Ltd, annual reports, press clippings, papers and correspondence relating to Pacific Safflower, 1913-1986

Folder 2
Papers and correspondence relating to Harold Meggitt Limited including annual reports, meeting minutes, auditors report, and newspaper clippings; copy of sketch of the Halmeg mills, letters to shareholders, papers on the Lever Brothers, plan of railway lands at West Ryde, history written by Harold Meggitt, etc., 1915-1982

Folder 3
Meggitt Limited promotional material, notebook, handbook for stockholders, the Halmeg guide to correct poultry feeding, Meggitt's sheep book, 'Oilseeds in Australia: a calendar of an industry development, 1908-1998', papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings, 1920-1998

Folder 4
Papers, correspondence, and newspaper clippings about Meggitt's, Halmeg, linseed oil industry, profit-sharing, etc., 1937-1989

BOX 2
Ledger
Used as a scrapbook, contains press clippings about cars, motorists, Meggitts, undated

Album
Inscribed 'Florence [I?] Meggitt, Mornington, Hunter's Hill, Sydney, 1937'. Contains greeting cards (including from Parachinar Fort, Army Headquarters India, etc.), press clippings on the royal family and Meggitts, photographs, ca. 1937-1949

Folder 1
Scrapbook 'H. W. Meggitt, Barton-on-Humber, June 18th 1867' containing prose, newspaper clippings on sport and Barton-on-Humber news, cotton oil, linseed oil, Lever Brothers, Meggitt's mills, etc.; photograph of Henry William Meggitt (1852-1928), and of Harold Meggitt (1881-1949); sports programs, etc., 1867-1928

Folder 2
Meggitt family papers, correspondence, telegrams, clippings, and photographs; baby book for Ian Stuart Meggitt (b. 1944), 1901-1982

Folder 3: 'The Harold Meggitt Story'
Typescript manuscript, photographs, clippings, amendments, ca. 1917-1999

Folder 4: 'Meggitt Memorabillia'
Family tree details, family correspondence, photographs of family members, mills, houses, press clippings, certificate of incorporation, ca. 1902-1967

BOX 3
Folder 1
The Harold Meggitt Story letters and reports, August 1910-April 1917

Folder 2
The Harold Meggitt Story letters and reports, May 1917-January 1918

BOX 4
Family tree, albums and loose photographs of the Meggitt family, holidays, sites around New South Wales, the Sydney Harbour Bridge nearing completion, overseas holidays, houses, the Meggitt business properties, Sydney Harbour, Tonga, the Blue Mountains, etc., ca. 1895-1953

BOX 5
'South America "Robinson Crusoe" Island West Indies: Impressions of a Tour' by J. C. Meggitt, 1938

Album: Meggitt Ltd Parramatta
Diagrams, sketches, photographs of silos, oil reservoirs, etc., ca. 1916

Minute book
Harold Meggitt Ltd minute, 1928-1937

Banking ledger
Commonwealth Bank, Gladesville Branch, 1949-1963

Album
Pressed flowers, photographs, clippings of artworks, ca. 1895-1915

BOX 6X
2 photographs of Meggitt Ltd at Parramatta, ca. 1915

Copyright status:: In copyright
Out of copyright: Photographs created before 1955
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