Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Walter Smith Sutherland Mackay (b 1904), commenting on the management of the tea estates owned by James Finlay and Company in the High Range of Travancore where he was an assistant manager 1924-32, manager 1932-46, and assistant general manager 1946-57.
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by James Brodie (`George') Soutar (b 1910), on his career as office manager, assistant general manager, and acting general manager of the Kanan Devan Hills Produce Company 1937-39 and 1946-68, dealing chiefly with his handling of the tea plantation strike of 1958.
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Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by James Brodie (`George') Soutar (b 1910), on his career as office manager, assistant general manager, and acting general manager of the Kanan Devan Hills Produce Company 1937-39 and 1946-68, dealing chiefly with his handling of the tea plantation strike ...
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Sir John Crawford Burns (b 1903), employed by James Finlay & Company in the management of their Bombay Cotton Mills 1924-40 and 1946-57; President, Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1952; Chairman, Bombay Millowners Association 1956; commentin...
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Lady Eleanor Margaret Haughton Burns (b 1908), married Sir John Crawford Burns 1941; on her life as a European woman living in India 1946-57 mainly after independence. [Transcript available].
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Violet Rogerson, nanny companion 1925-30 to the family of Col Ronald Playfair St Vincent Bernard (1888-1943), Indian Army 1907-43, recounting her experiences on the North-West Frontier and at Delhi. [Transcript available].
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Mary Ffolliot Lambert (b c1906), on her recollections of India 1933-47 as the companion of the Maharani of Balrampur 1933, and as the wife of an army officer, and of her various wartime jobs as hospital dispenser, food analyst, teacher, and Leave Centre...
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Lt-Col Denis de Gruchy Lambert (b 1900), Indian Army (Scinde Horse) 1922-47, ADC to the Governor of the United Provinces 1931-33, on his career in India. [Transcript available].
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Monica Jackson (b 1920) about her life in south India 1920-55, as the daughter of a coffee planter in Coimbatore and the wife of an army officer, and her subsequent visits in the 1970s. [Transcript available].
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Hubert Cecil Gotts (b 1901) about his career with Cox and Co, Bankers, 1919-54, in Bombay, Calcutta and Rangoon (Manager 1945-51), and his social life in India and Burma. [Transcript available].
Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Edwin John Beer (b 1879), on his career as a chemist investigating rayon c1899-1908, as employee of General Prospecting Syndicate in India c1909-20, and on his search for sites in India for the production of Portland cement. [Transcript available].