Aerial view of Warmsworth Hall and the new premises of British Ropes

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RECORDS OF BRIDON PLC (FORMERLY BRITISH ROPES LTD) AND OF COMPANIES ACQUIRED BY ITDYBRI

Bridon PlcDYBRI/1

Administration and Finance: Bridon PLCDYBRI/1/1

Company Archivist: Bridon PLCDYBRI/1/2

Technical Services: Bridon PLCDYBRI/1/3

Publicity and Information: Bridon PLCDYBRI/1/4

Reports: Bridon PLCDYBRI/1/5

Photographs: Bridon PLCDYBRI/1/6

Teams Rope Works AFC team and memorandum, 1960,DYBRI/1/6/1

Group of four men at an? agricultural showDYBRI/1/6/2

Unidentified elderly man with a pipeDYBRI/1/6/3

Group of about 150 employees at Doncaster in evening dressDYBRI/1/6/4

Group of about 150 employees at Doncaster in evening dressDYBRI/1/6/5

Ladies' cricket team, with a list identifying the membersDYBRI/1/6/6

Married couple indoors in wedding clothesDYBRI/1/6/7

Group of about 100 women workers posed outside an office buildingDYBRI/1/6/8

Jack Dawson, former directorDYBRI/1/6/9

Members (named in 1952) of the Federation of Wire Rope Manufacturers of Great Britain at GleneaglesDYBRI/1/6/10

Visit to Rutherglen by the wire rope sales committee and works managersDYBRI/1/6/11

Members of the Federation of British Industry regional councilsDYBRI/1/6/12

Mr. J. Baker of Danite Hard MetalsDYBRI/1/6/13

Mr J. Baker and an unidentified manDYBRI/1/6/14

Mr. Herbert Smith, coloured drawing by Mayfair CartoonsDYBRI/1/6/15

Unidentified directorDYBRI/1/6/16

Unidentified directorDYBRI/1/6/17

Firework display and group of dinersDYBRI/1/6/18

Sunderland: management at diner during a dinner-dance, 1966DYBRI/1/6/19

Foreign visits by senior staff and their wives (some identified)DYBRI/1/6/20

Workman standing by a ?wire-drawing furnaceDYBRI/1/6/21

Men in a wire mill, modern copy negativeDYBRI/1/6/22

Net making, Gateshead factoryDYBRI/1/6/23

Workmen manipulating large - gauge wire ring-meshingDYBRI/1/6/24

Closing a rope at Willington QuayDYBRI/1/6/25

Workmen manipulating a coil of wire ropeDYBRI/1/6/26

Workers, mostly women, at work in the manufacture of Red Star baler twineDYBRI/1/6/27

Women at work in the Sunderland factoryDYBRI/1/6/28

Women at work in the Sunderland factoryDYBRI/1/6/29

Photo-lithograph of a panoramic view of the Teams Rope WorksDYBRI/1/6/30

British Ropes stands at exhibitionsDYBRI/1/6/31

Aerial view of Carr Hill site, DoncasterDYBRI/1/6/32

Steel rods stored in the open air, DoncasterDYBRI/1/6/33

(?)Doncaster works visitDYBRI/1/6/34

Premises of W.B. Brown and William Dukes of HullDYBRI/1/6/35

Rope walk with close-up of a 36 inch fibre ropeDYBRI/1/6/36

Interior of an office building at Gateshead(?)DYBRI/1/6/37

Straight through Barron and Crowther wire-drawing machineDYBRI/1/6/38

Aerial view of Warmsworth Hall and the new premises of British RopesDYBRI/1/6/39

Postcard view of Warmsworth Hall and the new premises in the backgroundDYBRI/1/6/40

Factory interior, showing drum of wire ropeDYBRI/1/6/41

British Ropes Canadian factory, exteriorDYBRI/1/6/42

Dedication and official opening of British Ropes Canadian Factory Ltd, plant and officesDYBRI/1/6/43

Official opening of the Toronto warehouseDYBRI/1/6/44

250 ton Crane at Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle upon Tyne)DYBRI/1/6/45

3 ton crane at Poole harbourDYBRI/1/6/46

Marine crane and interior of crane engine houseDYBRI/1/6/47

Drum of colliery haulage ropeDYBRI/1/6/48

Drum of rope loaded on to a lorryDYBRI/1/6/49

Drum of Blue Strand Tru-Lay ropeDYBRI/1/6/50

Drums of wire rope with destinations stencilled for exportDYBRI/1/6/51

Loading a drum of wire rope for Argentina into the hold of a shipDYBRI/1/6/52

Agricultural show in North YorksDYBRI/1/6/53

Erecting an aerial rope way for Heights Quarry, Weardale, Co. DurhamDYBRI/1/6/54

Drum of wire rope in a factory at GatesheadDYBRI/1/6/55

Publicity photographs for 'Carefree' polypropylene carpetingDYBRI/1/6/56

Tamar bridgeDYBRI/1/6/57

Baltic Hall(?), DenmarkDYBRI/1/6/58

Gourock airhouseDYBRI/1/6/59

Trade marks of Robin Hood, Castle and YACRO brandsDYBRI/1/6/60

Group of products of Wm Canning and Co., BirminghamDYBRI/1/6/61

Postcard views numbered 1-17DYBRI/1/6/62

Album of three exterior and fifteen interior views of the Prodinsa factoryDYBRI/1/6/63

Duke of Edinburgh at the British Ropes standDYBRI/1/6/64

Duke of Edinburgh at Cables Mexicanos SADYBRI/1/6/65

Duke of Edinburgh on the steamboat 'Auld Reekie' at LeithDYBRI/1/6/66

Prince Charles at the Doncaster roperyDYBRI/1/6/67

Duchess of KentDYBRI/1/6/68

An unidentified group of men hay balingDYBRI/1/6/69

Lorry with British Ropes livery in use at GatesheadDYBRI/1/6/70

Mayor, mayoress, captain and fourteen unidentified men and women on the deck of a shipDYBRI/1/6/71

Eleven trawlers laid up at the end of the seasonDYBRI/1/6/72

Sea elephant on a beachDYBRI/1/6/73

Dismembering a whale on shoreDYBRI/1/6/74

Doncaster race courseDYBRI/1/6/75

Photographs relating to synthetic cordageDYBRI/1/6/76

Cultivation and processing of sisalDYBRI/1/6/77

Visit by a group of overseas visitors to a fibre rope-making worksDYBRI/1/6/78

Light aircraft with British Ropes liveryDYBRI/1/6/79

Agricultural machinery, straw bales etc in BangkokDYBRI/1/6/80

HorseshoesDYBRI/1/6/81

British Ropes logo, old styleDYBRI/1/6/82

Stadium under constructionDYBRI/1/6/83

Headed writing paper as used by the Bridon-American CorporationDYBRI/1/6/84

Doncaster race course, pre-race parade of horses and the stand (not the St. Leger)DYBRI/1/6/85

Deck of an oil tankerDYBRI/1/6/86

Interiors of factories, displays, men at work, etcDYBRI/1/6/87

Interior of a factory during some special event, with balloons, flags etc?DYBRI/1/6/88

Man at work on an ?aircraft turbine engineDYBRI/1/6/89

Factory interior with machinery and electronic control panelsDYBRI/1/6/90

Factory interior, empty, with a close-up of four metal or plastic mouldingsDYBRI/1/6/91

Catalogues and Brochures: Bridon PLCDYBRI/1/7

Printed Works: Bridon PLCDYBRI/1/8

BRITISH ROPES NORTHERN (SALES) LTDDYBRI/2

ALLAN, WHYTE AND CO. LTD.DYBRI/3

BRITISH PLEXON LTDDYBRI/4

W.B. BROWN (BANKHALL) LTDDYBRI/5

BULLIVANT AND CO. LTDDYBRI/6

WILLIAM COOKE AND CO. LTD.DYBRI/7

GEORGE CRADDOCK AND CODYBRI/8

CRAVEN AND SPEEDINGDYBRI/9

DARLINGTON WIRE MILLSDYBRI/10

DIXON CORBITTDYBRI/11

DONCASTER WIRE COMPANY LTDDYBRI/12

EDINBURGH ROPERIEDYBRI/13

GEORGE ELLIOT AND CO. LTD.DYBRI/14

EXCELSIOR WIRE ROPE CO. LTD.DYBRI/15

GARNOCK BIBBY AND CO. LTD.DYBRI/16

GLAHOLM AND ROBSONDYBRI/17

GOUROCK ROPEWORK CODYBRI/18

D H AND G HAGGIEDYBRI/19

R. HOOD HAGGIE AND SONS LTDDYBRI/20

HUMBER ROPE COMPANYDYBRI/21

LONDON SPINNING COMPANY LIMITEDDYBRI/22

D. MORGAN REES AND SONS LIMITEDDYBRI/23

NEWBURN CORDAGEDYBRI/24

NORTHGATE STEEL WIRE MILLSDYBRI/25

ROLLASON WIRE COMPANY LIMITEDDYBRI/26

E. AND A. SMITH AND COMPANY LIMITEDDYBRI/27

THOMAS AND WILLIAM SMITHDYBRI/28

WILLIAM TERRELL AND SONS LIMITEDDYBRI/29

WEBSTER AND COMPANYDYBRI/30

WRIGHTS' ROPESDYBRI/31

Unattributed RecordsDYBRI/32