Africa, Southern: Development - Economic development, 1950-1965
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 412/36
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-82) General reviews - 'South Africa': Memoranda from the Johannesburg office, extracts from Board meeting minutes, and circulars to Gold Producers' Committee members, reviewing economic and developmental aspects of South African affairs; from politics, mining finance, and commodity rice reviews to transport problems and mortgages (contains a detailed handlist), 1950-1956
- folder 2 (fols. 1-82) General reviews - 'South Africa': Memoranda from the Johannesburg office, extracts from Board meeting minutes, and circulars to Gold Producers' Committee members, reviewing economic and developmental aspects of South African affairs; from politics, mining finance, and commodity rice reviews to transport problems and mortgages (contains a detailed handlist), 1960-1965 [see also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 412/26, folders 1-2]
- folder 3 (fols. 1-23) supplement to report on 'South African Export Market' (item 3 below): Cover note from W.D. Galpin, with photocopied pages of a pamphlet, The British Stake in South Africa, by the National Association of British Manufacturers and a Rand Daily Mail cutting on a London Press Exchange survey: both to promote trade rather than boycotts of the Republic, 1962-1964
- folder 4 (fols. 1-8) Trade with the 'Eastern Bloc': Photocopy of a 'confidential' memorandum about a project for establishing a French company as an intermediary for trade between communist countries and South African firms, Feb-Mar 1965
- (item 1) 'Secondary Industry in South Africa': The third Bernard Price Memorial Lecture delivered by Dr H.J. van Eck to the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. The text is accompanied by various statistical tables (15 pp. text; 14 pp. appendices - unfoliated typescript), 25 Aug 1953
- (item 2) 'Confidential' report by W.D. Galpin on 'South African Industries'. This reviews the development of secondary industries and advocates the Group's diversification into metallurgical and engineering industries (indexed and bound; 126 pp., charts and graphs - unfoliated typescript), 25 Apr 1963
- (item 3) 'Confidential' report by W.D. Galpin on the 'South African Export Market'; this examines the market to determine the effect on South Africa of the threatened boycott. Endorsed 'the only copy' (folder 3 contains a supplement of this report; this report is indexed and bound; 155 pp. with graphs and charts - unfoliated typescript), 14 Dec 1963 [see also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 412/36, folder 2, fols. 60-61].
Dates
- Creation: 1950-1965
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 412/36
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk