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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 15
Letterbook consisting of copies of internal and external letters sent by the head office of Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Snow Hill, September - December 1903. Topics covered in this letterbook include the day-to-day running of the business, with detailed correspondence with the Burroughs Wellcome productions site in Dartford and also the branches in Sydney and Cape Town. Iinternal correspondence covers such administrative details as terms of employment and recruitment. There is also correspondence with Burroughs Wellcome's Travelling Salesmen, such letters include discussion on such topics as sales techniques, the opening of new markets, the threat from rival companies and BW&Co products over which complaints have arisen. This letterbook mostly contains material on the case of Burroughs Wellcome & Co v Thompson and Capper (referred in the letterbook to the 'Manchester case' and the 'Tabloid' case), including a list of all the witnesses called for BW&Co. The case was brought about after BW&Co accused Thomson and Capper of manufacturing and selling their own pills as Tabloids, and so infringing on BW&C's trademarked term. Also included in the letterbook is correspondence with other businesses and publications over their infringement of BW&Co's 'Tabloid' trade mark. 1000 pages used. Index as follows: J A ATKINSON (Traveller) 4 (re interview with the Secretary of the Egyptian War Office), 5, 433, 488, 598/9, 787, 967 Leao AMZALAK (re) 27 ALLEN & HANBURYS LTD 58 AMERICAN CONSUL GENERAL (See SKINNER) C B ALLEN (Kilburn) 235, 374, 421, 804A Mrs ARNOLD 300 S R ATKINS (Salisbury) 369, 403, 425, 496, 529, 804A ARNOLD (RASTRICK & SON) 409 Dr ATTFIELD 450, 477, 804A Henry ARNOLD (Coleman Street) 464, 663, 804 Robert AITKEN 465, 804B T J ADAMS (GOODALL BACKHOUSE) 468 W ASTON 656, 697, 804B J W AXFORD 660, 804B Army & Navy Co-operative Society (See Leonard JOHNSON) 663 John ADAIR (Sydney) (re) 709 ADMIRALTY RECRUITING DEPT
- Fecha
- 1903
- Institución
- Wellcome Collection (Londres)
- Colección
- La Argentina en la Wellcome Collection
- Derechos
- Dominio público