Cutting from 'The Finance Chronicle and Insurance Circular', discussing the impact of the new roller milling technology on fire risks and insurance costs. This article is continued in DUFF-SBK-002, which contains the follow-up written a month later, 2 February 1885.
Cutting from 'The Finance Chronicle and Insurance Circular', discussing the layout, machinery and processes of roller mills and their associated fire risks. This article is a continuation of DUFF-SBK-001 and DUFF-SBK-002.
5 cuttings reporting mill fires. The articles are from The Standard, The Citizen, and Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser and General Intelligencer, describing mill fires, their costs and causes.
Article from the journal "Milling" about the new Co-operative Flour Mills in Avonmouth, Bristol. The article discusses the Robinson system, as well as details of the mills site, floor plans, features, power, production and staff. Note from Duffield made in pencil on article, explains that this information can also be found in number 206 of "The Miller", 6th June 1910 (seen under DUFF-SBK-006).
The first cutting is an article in The Insurance News showing correspondence to the editor regarding corn mill fires, detailing the costs of damages and the most common times and causes for fires. The second cutting details the success of the burial fund business Prudential Assurance Company Limited.
Various sets of cuttings. The first cutting is a continuation of the article discussing the difficulties in insuring against fire in corn mills in DUFF-SBK-012 and DUFF-SBK-013. The next cutting describes a new Welsbach incandescent gas lighting system. There is then a cutting detailing a fire at Star Mills, Oldham. Next is a series of cuttings discussing a new mutual insurance to be set-up by a conglomerate of millers in the UK, as well as a new sprinkler system for mills, and also discussion of a new company secretary for the Association of British and Irish Millers.
The first cutting is a continuation of DUFF-SBK-034, describing the cyclo-pneumatic system used at the Snowdon Flake Flour Mills. The next cutting is a picture of Audley Corn Mills, Blackburn. Kimmins Mill in Chatham is discussed in the next cutting. On the reverse of this article is a series of adverts for various roller mills and machinery. The final cutting is an article on Messrs T Hallinan & Sons mills at Fermoy and Middleton, Co Cork.
The first two cuttings deal with an automatic sprinkler used in the Shawmut wood pulp mill, New England, USA. The third cutting discusses the sprinklers and insurance for Resolution Mill, Tyldesley, and the last three cuttings are on a discussion in the Canadian Miller about Air Bolters.
Two cuttings depicting Victoria Flour Mills, Grimsby, Ridgway Flour Mills, Hanley, Marsh Mills, Plympton, Burschough Mills, Burscough, Junction Mills, Leith, and Harston Mill, Harston and stating their number of sacks per hour.
Three cuttings, the first showing Mumford's Mill, Greenwich before a refit and extension,m the second showing Borough Mills, Bolton, and the third reporting on H & R Ainscough, Ltd registering as a private company in 1928.
Two cuttings, one showing Messrs G W Ball & Co's Limited Wooton Wawen Flour Mills, the second showing the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company's Combined silo and provender mill, Manchester.