An enclosed description of the image reads: "A new use for an old device--Germans place search lights on windmills to mark Great Continental air-routes. Photo shows: An up-to-date old windmill, equipped with a powerful search light to guide aviators on the great Continental air route between Moscow, Danzig and Berlin. German air authorities have found this a most economical way to cope with the growing demand for air travel." Underwood & Underwood negative no. S/1215X56.
Conveyance of premises in Brown Street and Worsley Street, Salford - Purchase Finance Company Ltd to Henry Davies and George Davies. Enclosed note from 13/03/1935.
Assignment of goodwill of business (Roller Flour Mills, Congleton) to the Purchase Finance Company Ltd, carried out by the representatives of Charles Caudwell, deceased. Particulars and Conditions of Sale of land and premises from the Caudwell family to the Purchase Finance Company and from the Company to Wilfred Arnold Oakes.
Letter to Nicholls from David Pym regarding the possible supply of a rum still for the Morgan Lewis sugar mill by John Dore & Co Ltd, Surrey ("engineers and suppliers to the distillation industry"). A brochure and photograph of their fire-heated rum still is enclosed.
A 1981 print of an earlier photograph of "New Castle Plantation St John", marked "CR Webster" on the reverse (Nicholls having consulted with a Colin Webster on the Morgan Lewis sugar mill restoration). The note on the reverse continues, "This Steam Engine was the first to operate as a sugar factory in the early 1900".
