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Secretary's general correspondence.
From around 1960 to 1964, the secretary is D.T.Jackson of W.H.Allen & Sons, Bedford; after 1964, R.W.Savage of Meltis Ltd., who had previously been treasurer, becomes secretary and R.F.Warwick of Brookhirst Igranic Ltd. treasurer. The bundle includes a list of firms in the Bedford area employing fifty or more people [1962]; a list of cafes in Luton [1964]; correspondence re: charges by the Borough Council for private fire hydrants [1957]; fire retardent paint [1961]; letter from F. Nicholls of Gadsby Street, Bedford declining to be a judge at the competition because of his health;an account of an outbreak of fire by Messrs. Ritter, Haeberli & Swinscoe [1964]; letters from [1963] and obituary of Herbert Arthur Crickmer of Woburn Sands [1964]; list of member companies and named representatives [1965]; details of industrial fire officers' course [1965]; article on the formation of the Bedford & District Fire Prevention Association [1966]; obituary of Alderman Alfred Leonard Nicholls, M.C., former Mayor of Bedford, whose family ran Nicholls & Sons Ltd., motor engineers; letter on death of Mr F. Arthur, of Muswell Road, Bedford, a former member [1966]. The bundle includes headed letters from (Major) Simon Whitbread J.P., Riseley [1963]
AC-Delco, Dunstable [1966]
Bedfordia Coaches, Kempston [1964]
Biscot Mill, Luton [restaurant, includes menu, 1964]
Britannia Iron & Steel Works Ltd., Bedford [1964]
Brookhirst Igranic Ltd., Bedford [1962]
Centenary Restaurant, Dunstable [includes sample menu, 1964]
County Printing Services (Bedford) Ltd [1965]
Cross Paperware Ltd, Dunstable [1966]
Cryselco Ltd., Kempston [1961]
Elstow Storage Depot, War Department, Kempston Hardwick [1964]
Empire Rubber Co., Dunstable [1966]
H.M.Factory Inspectorate, Ministry of Labour, Luton [1962]
Hayward Tyler & Co. Ltd., Luton [1962]
House of Dickinson Fire Brigade [1965]
John Bull & Co. (Bedford) Ltd., Bedford [1966]
Laporte Chemicals Ltd., Luton [1964]
Leicester Arms Hotel, Luton [1964]
Loewy Robertson Engineering Co. Ltd., Bedford [1966]
London Brick Co. Ltd. [1965]
Luton & District Industrial Fire Brigades Association [1965]
Mander College, Bedford [1966]
R.B.Sanders & Co (Kempston) Ltd. [1964]
Robinson Rentals Ltd., Bedford [1962]
Texas Instruments Ltd., Bedford [1966]
Texas Instruments, Bedford [1963]
Unilever Research Laboratory, Sharnbrook [1963]
W.H.A.Robertson & Co. Ltd., Bedford [1963]
W.H.Allen Sons & Co. Ltd. [1964]
It also includes headed letters from companies out of county:
Asociacion de Estudios e Informacion Tecnica del Fuego [Barcelona, Spain, 1963]
Baker Perkins Ltd., Peterborough [Lincolnshire, 1961]
Hadfields (Merton) Ltd, Mitcham [Surrey, 1961]
House of Dickinson Fire Brigade, Hemel Hempstead [Hertfordshire, 1963]
International Computers & Tabulators Ltd, Letchworth [Hertfordshire, 1961]
John Dickinson & Co. Ltd., King's Langley [Buckinghamshire, 1963]
London Salvage Corps [London], 1964]
Peterborough & District Fire Brigades' Association [1965]
The Pyrene Co. Ltd. [London, 1962]
United States Information Service, American Embassy [London, 1964]
Whitbread & Co. Ltd. [London, 1964]