| Level | Item |
| Ref No | OBS/1/2/2/2/115 |
| Title | Miscellaneous (memos) |
| Date | 1954-1974 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Creator Name | The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison |
| Description | General file predominatly related to administrative issues.
Contains memorandum concerning: control of production; charitable donations; security; christmas cards; staff changes; markclip; cleaning and tidying; collection and delivery services; management meetings schedule and attendees, history of the Observer; catering; Sunday magazines comparison; postage and stationery; Norman Allen leaving party; Board elections; customer service; notes for new secretaries; expenses; office changes; rail strikes; size of newspaper; external reporters/filming in the office; telephone numbers; Bank holiday closures; salaries; building work; negotiations with News International; Board reconstitution after acquisition by Atlantic Richfield Company; scholarship awards; emergency procedures; circulation figures; selling price changes; production visits; circulation policy; sale of Chinese teapot; personnel and purchasing routines; changes to pension schemes; annual donations; company cars; office cutbacks; room booking procedures; car parking; keyholder lists; letter bomb precautions; accomodation audit; The Making of the British; reading and noting; office thefts; manufacturing questionnaire; Ego section of Observer; television play competition; holiday rotas; magazine subs/newspaper subscriptions; canvassing letters; bound volumes; advertisement rates; press clippings featuring newspaper industry related stories; national readership figures; Young Observer, christmas party arrangements and staff agreements.
Also includes:
Various drafts of a summary of the Observer by K Harris
Draft statement of Company Policy and Objectives
Draft staff handbook
'Report on the condition of sanitation installations' by Thames Service Ltd, January 1970
Cutting from The Director titled 'The Sunday Newspaper Explosion'
'Deadly dangerous sea of libel' lecture by A L.
'Essential Information for citizens of the United Kingdon and Colonies who intend to travel overseas' July 1958
Tendering details for Independent Television Authority North East operating contract, October 1957.
'Entertainment's Duty by the Comissioners of Customs and Excise, 1954
'Young Observer: Report on a Preliminary Investigation,' March 1955
'What Oxford Reads,' by Cherwell, 1954
'Ourselves' reprinted from the Observer 1 May 1949
Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrision and Tristan Jones. |
| Access Status | Open(part) |
| Access Conditions | Any correspondence containing details of living indivduals' terms of employement may be closed. |
| Format | Typescript |
| Manuscript |
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