| Description | Include: notes by Ludwig Mond regarding the delimitation of markets between Solvay et Cie and Brunner, Mond & Co (signed "D'Accord" by Alfred Solvay) n.d., various letters relating to the scheme of the letters relating to the scheme of the Mersey Salt and Brine Co to bring brine to Runcorn and Widnes 1882-4; character reference for Charles White (later (1907-10) Company Secretary and (1910-21) Chief Accountant) from his brother Edmund 8 May 1882; letters from Parr's bank, Northwich relating to advances to the firm; letter and estimate from Edward Fidler to Edward Milner relating to a scheme to build a salt works on the Preesall salt deposit, Lancs, 1883; letters from Hasenclever (Managing Director of the Chemische Fabrik Rhenania, Aachen) relating to a licence to Brunner, Mond & Co for the use of Thelen's apparatus for drying and evaporation and the later transfer of the English patents Nov-Dec 1883; copy (in John Brunner's hand) of a letter from Verdin Bros (Liverpool) to Solvay et Cie requesting terms for a possible licence for the erection of an ammonia-soda works 21 Dec 1883; statements by John Brunner to the London and NW Railway giving statistics of production and consumption by Brunner, Mond & Co since 1874 and by Leblanc manufacturers 1877 and 1883, and details of a planned new works capable of producing 200,000 tons p.a. to be built at Winnington or Ditton 1884; correspondence between Ludwig Mond and Sir Edward Sullivan relating to Sullivan & Co's (Widnes) plans to build an ammonia-soda plant and to proposals that Brunner, Mond & Co should amalgamate with them in the venture Jun-Jul 1884 (see also 87/BM221+232) and petitions from the staff of the Drawing office to Henry Schellhaas (Chief Engineer) asking an increase in their bonus and the opportunity to acquire shares in the company, 1905. |