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Papers Of Mr J A Dunning C.1938-C.1964

Catalogue reference: GB 0026 D2849

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Reference: GB 0026 D2849
Title: Papers Of Mr J A Dunning C.1938-C.1964
Date: 1938-1964
Description: Papers of John Albert Dunning, covering his career as a works chemist in India, and later at the Pinxton Coking Plant, Derbyshire in the 1950s and 1960s. Includes company records for the Indian Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Hirapur, Bengal, India, 1930s-1940s, and for the Pinxton Coke Works, 1950s, and International Combustion, Derby, 1960s.
Held by: Derbyshire Record Office
Language: English
Creator(s): <persname>Dunning, John, fl 1938-1964, works chemist, of India and Pinxton, Derbyshire</persname>
Physical description: 21 files
Immediate source of acquisition: They were given to Derbyshire Record Office by a private individual in 1985.
Administrative / biographical background: John Albert Dunning trained as a works chemist with the Consett Iron Company in Co. Durham. In 1938 he was appointed shift manager at the Indian Iron & Steel Company's works at Hirapur in Bengal. At that time, it was the second largest plant in the British Empire. Mr Dunning left India in 1948 'because of its unsettled conditions' and returned to England. In May 1951 he became manager of Pinxton Coking Plant, a post he held until closure of the plant in January 1955.
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