Documents

Archive records and paper ephemera

Code	Title	Type	Description
LVSAV2009.014	Conference Paper - "Assaying Oil Shale"	File Record	Institute of Petroleum conference paper presented at the Second Oil Shale and Cannel Coal Conference held at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, July 3-7 1950, …
LVSAV2009.016	Booklet - "Scottish Shale Industry Report by Accountants Appointed by the Board of Trade on the Costs of Production and Financial Results in the Shal	File Record	16 page booklet entitled "Scottish Shale Industry Report by Accountants Appointed by the Board of Trade on the Costs of Production and Financial Results in …
LVSAV2009.017	Booklet - "What the Oil Industry Owes to Dr James Young"	File Record	2 copies of a 6 page booklet containing a paper entitled "What the Oil Industry Owes to Dr James Young" by Cook, F.M., General Manager …
LVSAV2009.018	Patent - "Improvements in Distilling or Refining Mineral Oils and in Apparatus Therefor".	File Record	Patent to Norman Macfarlane Henderson, Broxburn, County of Linlithgow for an invention of "Improvements in Distilling or Refining Mineral Oils and in Apparatus Therefor". Third …
LVSAV2009.019	Patent - "Improvements in and Relating to Retorts for Distilling Shale and like Minerals, and for Dealing with the Resulting Products".	File Record	2 copies of patent number 15,552, dated 1891 on front and 8th June 1892 inside, second edition. Robert Orr and Robert MacKay Sutherland of James …
LVSAV2009.020	Patent - '' Improvements in or Relating to Retorts for the Distillation of Shale and other Bituminous Substances''	File Record	Patent number 8371, dated 1894 on front and 26th January 1895 inside, second edition. James Bryson, Engineer, Pumpherston Oil Works, Midlothian; James Jones, Managing Director, …
LVSAV2009.021	Patent - ''Improvements in or Relating to Retorts for the Distillation of Shale and other Bituminous Substances''	File Record	patent number 7113, dated 1895 on front and 5th April 1895 inside, second edition. James Bryson, Engineer, Pumpherston Oil Works, Midlothian; James Jones, Managing Director, …
LVSAV2009.022	Patent - ''Improvements in and Relating to Retorts for the Destructive Distillation of Shale''	File Record	patent number 13,665, dated 1897 on front and 2nd March 1898 inside. William Young, Priorsford, Peebles, Chemical Engineer and John Fyfe, 1 Montgomerie Drive, Glasgow, …
LVSAV2009.023	Patent - ''Improvements in the Treatment of Bituminous Shales and the like, for the obtainment of Oil therefrom and in Apparatus to be used therein''	File Record	Patent number 111,605, dated 1917 on front and 10th September 1917 inside. Dundas Simpson, 15 Eastmearn Road, West Norwood, City of London and Archibald Simpson, …
LVSAV2009.025	Leaflet - ''Paraffin Young Heritage Trail''	File Record	leaflet "Paraffin Young Heritage Trail" circa 1975? Brown text and graphics on orange coloured paper, image of large oil works on front and rear with …