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Description: | Series of correspondence between Edwin Preston and various companies involved in the manufacture of scales, weights and laboratory apparatus. (1913 - 1916) Letters highlight the difficulty of obtaining supplies of German weights (especially gramme weights) since the onset of war. Agreements are made for Edwin Preston to supply sets of weights to the various companies involved in the manufacture of scales, weights and laboratory apparatus in light of the shortages of imported German-manufactured weights which had dominated the European market up to this point. The series of letters highlight the difficulties experienced by Edwin Preston in producing weights on a par with German weights, the drive to keep prices low to assist the war effort and the need for products to conform to changes in the Regulations for Pharmaceutical Weights in order to be approved and stamped by an Inspector for the Board of Trade.
Contractors' invoices, inspection notes and correspondence from the Chief Ordnance Officer, Army Ordnance Depot, Didcot (1916-1917)
Notices, instructions and correspondence from the War Office (Contracts Department) regarding the supply of iron weights by Edwin Preston (1915-1917)
Carrier's notes for War Department Stores, Great Western Railway Co. (1916) | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1914-1918 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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