Albert A. Thornbrough fonds. 1945- 2004.

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Albert A. Thornbrough fonds. 1945- 2004.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/628589876

The fonds consists of records, reports, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper and magazine clippings, planning materials, speeches, memoranda, and appointment books related to A. Thornbrough's tenure as director of procurement of Harry Ferguson Inc. and later president and chief executive officer of Massey-Ferguson Limited.

4.05 m of textual records.

University of Guelph. McLaughlin Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7876388

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Massey Ferguson (1958)

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Massey-Harris-Ferguson Limited was an agricultural implement manufacturer. Daniel Massey (1798-1856) began manufacturing farm implements at Bond Head but moved to Newcastle in 1849 where he established the Newcastle Foundry and Machine Manufactory, later renamed the Massey Manufacturing Company by his son. Alanson Harris (1816-94) established a foundry at Beamsville in 1857 under the name A. Harris, Son & Co., and relocated to Brantford in 1872. Massey Manufacturing Co. moved its headquarters to...

Harris-Ferguson Inc.

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Harry Ferguson Inc.

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Thornbrough, Albert A., 1912-2004.

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Standard Motor Company Ltd.

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The Standard Motor Company was founded in Coventry in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay. By 1924 the company had a share of the market comparable to Austin, but by the late 1920s profits had fallen dramatically due to heavy reinvestment, a failed export contract and poor sales of the larger cars. John Black joined the ailing company and by increasing productivity, masterminded the huge success of the company in the 1930s. Standard acquired Triumph in November 1944. The company was re...

Ferguson, Harry, 1884-1960

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Massey-Ferguson Ltd.

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