Catalogue description TEXT - PERIOD K. 1900-1914.

Pp K1-168. Contents: Personalia; Main Features of the Period; Important Dates; Works Development; Works in 1909; RSJ as Public Liability Co; J A Goodwyn; J H W Pawlyn; Changing Markets (including statistics for largest export trade year per country); Comparison of trade in 1902 and 1928; England's best customers in 1911; Paris Exhibition 1900; Allahabad Exhibition 1910; South Africa; with notes by Mr Rackham; Trade with British East Africa; Disc Plough; Ploughs for India; Thrashing Machiner; 1900-1914; Petrol Motor Tractor; Oil Well Engines; Spark Catchers; Crude Oil Engines; Combined Tractor Plough; Turkish Contract; Trade with S E D A Ploughs to J & J Drysdale; Odessa Branch; A Eliopoulos of Macaronia; Colombia; Mr Bisiemeek of Riga; Siberian Trade; Boer War Settlement; Sale of Portable Steam Engines in Egypt; Water Divining at Orwell Works; Catalogue Covers; Ruston, Proctor & Co's Annual Smithfield Dinner; Fiscal Reform; Encylopaedia Britannica; Pre-War Difficulties; James Adams; J R Jefferies; J E Ransome; J D Sims; W H Watts; Alfred Smith; W M Clarke; John Foreman; F Oswald Moule; Ransome's great Plough Match successes; Visit of Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1911 and 1913. [K41-2 and K155 were not used]

In 5 parts: Part 1 - K1-44; Part 2 - K45-84; Part 3 - K85 - 128; Part 4 - K129-167 [excl 142-4]; Part 5 - K168 and 142-4.

Documents are inserted at the following points:

K44 1911(18 Apr)

PROSPECTUS for the issue of:

i. 133,334 5½% cumulative preference shares at £1 each.

ii. £166,667 4½% First mortgage debenture stock at 99½%

Also includes details of when payable, a list of profits for 1901-1910 and a memorandum of Association adopted by special resolution to approve the above issue in lieu of the 1884 Articles of Association. A blank application form for each issue is included.

K52-K70 1902(Oct)

REPORT [COPY] on the position of RSJ export trade, including comparison with previous review of 1896(Jun). Arrangement is a summary report per agency. Also includes a list of countries not properly represented in terms of suitable agents and/or products.

K71-K79 1928

REPORT on the position of RSJ's export trade as at 1928(1 Jan) with a summary report per agency.

K81 1911

PRESS CUTTING of review of 2nd Vol of 1911 Annual Statement of the trade of the United Kingdom. Includes several general export statistics. Source not indicated.

K83 1900

CARD concerning award of the "Grand Prix" and gold medal to RSJ at the Paris International Exhibition.

K84 1911

CARD concerning award of 14 medals to RSJ at the United Provinces Exhibition, Allahabad 1910-11. PN 5782E

K103A 1929

CATALOGUE for "Magic" 2 furrow Reversible Disc Plough. Pp 4. PN 9514E.

K107 1926(Oct)

EXTRACT from PN 8616E. Pp 1-2. "Demon" Plough for South Africa. PN 8616E

K110 [late nineteenth century]

ENGRAVING of Wood Turn Wrest Ploughs, BT, CT and DT.

K111 1910

ENGRAVING of "Meston" Plough, MSN Block No 206.

K116A and B [c1910]

EXTRACT from PN Pp 75-6. Steam Thrashing Machine accessories.

K119[1-4] 1903

4 PHOTOGRAPHS of first RSJ petrol motor tractor in operation. PhN 2635, 2597, 2600 and 2601.

K137 1906(6 Nov)

PRESS CUTTING concerning water finding by S T Child in Portugal, with appendant photograph. "East Anglian Daily Times".

K139-140 1907(24 Dec)

PRESS CUTTING concerning S T Child's second visit to Portugal for water finding. "East Anglian Daily Time".

K142 1910(Nov)

CATALOGUE COVER Thrashing Machinery PN 5620E

K143 1907(Oct)

CATALOGUE COVER Ploughs and Implements PN 4800E

K144 1910(Aug)

CATALOGUE COVER Steam Engineering PN 4490G

K152 1913(13 Sep)

PRESS EXTRACT [Reprints] being photographs of James Adams at Ripley Church "Felixstowe Visitors' List". [Mounted]

K153 1900(13 Sep)

PRESS CUTTING concerning death of J R Jefferies "East Anglian Daily Times." [Mounted]

K154-6 1905(1 Feb)

PRESS CUTTING concerning death of J E Ransome "East Anglian Daily Times". [Mounted]

K157 1906(1 Jan)

PRESS CUTTING concerning death of J D Sims "East Anglian Daily Times". [Mounted]

K158 1910(20 Dec)

PRESS CUTTING [Reprint] concerning death of W H Watts, RSJ implement expert. "East Anglian Daily Times". [Mounted]

K159 1911(16 Nov)

PRESS CUTTING concerning death of Alfred Smith of RSJ's home correspondence department. "Star" and "East Anglian Daily Times" [Mounted]

K160 1913(12 Apr)

PRESS CUTTING concerning death of W M Clarke, RSJ's chief lawn mower representative. "East Anglian Daily Times". [Mounted]

K161 1914(4 Mar)

PRESS CUTTING concerning death of John Foreman head of RSJ's office "East Anglian Daily Times" [Mounted]

K162 1914(23 Jul)

PRESS CUTTING concerning death of F Oswald Moule associated with RSJ's export trade "East Anglian Daily Times". [Mounted]

K164 1904(Nov)

NOTICE of the success of RSJ ploughs at Wilmington Ploughing Match (3 Nov). RSJ. Pp 1. PN 4248H.

K165 1910(Feb)

NOTICE of success of RSJ ploughs at ploughing matches in Great Britain and Ireland in 1909. RSJ. Pp 1. PN 5477E.

K166 1908(Nov)

NOTICE of the success of RSJ ploughs at the North Kent Ploughing Match, Horton Kirby (5 Nov). RSJ. Pp 1. PN 5119H.

K168 1911(16 Jan)

PLAN of the Orwell Works as drawn for the visit of the Junior Institution of Engineers, 1911(31 Jul) and subsequently that of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1913(31 Jul). DN. D11079. BP