| Level | Item |
| Ref No | GMG/1/3/3/1/2/6/3/3 |
| Title | Correspondence, 1970-75 |
| Date | 1970-1975 |
| Extent | 4 folders |
| Creator Name | Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott |
| Description | Correspondence relating to LP Scott's role as Chairman of Milbury Holdings Ltd.
Includes memorandums relating to Milbury's attempts to divest the group of its investment properties and 'surplus' land stock (1970); correspondence regarding the proposed selling of Milbury Estates to either Lowton Construction or Carlton Investments Ltd. and the subsequent winding up of the company (abandoned 1970); correspondence onthe selling of Milbury shares to the Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group and Milbury Estates becoming a subsidiary of their company (1970); lists of shareholders (1970, 71, 72); profit and loss report on Mitchell Doughty Ltd (June 1971); correspondence regarding a company audit (1972) and correspondence regarding the resignation of Bernard Dufton, JPP Tyndall and HP Stirling as company directors in 1971, and their being replaced by EP Greenfield and NE Shepherd, both of the Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group, in 1972. Also contains correspondence relating to the purchase of the company, in May 1972, when all 4 trading companies were sold to ARV Holdings Ltd. |
| System Of Arrangement | Chronological |
| Access Status | Open |
| Access Conditions | Some records closed in accordance with the Data Protection Act. |
| Term | Corporate Mergers |
| Stocks And Shares |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Typescript |
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