Series 6 - Miscellaneous Management and Administrative Files


Date Range1961? - 1991?
Quantity34 cm, 17 files and award plaque
ProvenancePigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Description

Includes a variety of management and administrative files and paperwork, from correspondence and forms, to stationery price lists and logs of taxi trips, to technical communications and documents regarding the closure of the plant.

A number of records feature the name D. R. Harris or his initials typed, handwritten, or marked on distribution lists. Others are similarly linked to Alan R. Barlee, through either his name, or by the use of alpha-numeric filing codes from the General Manager's filing index (see Series 4) which are handwritten on some papers.

The provenance of Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited has been assigned to this series as it was not possible to determine a finer provenance attribution. Also included are files pre-dating the formation of PMA Ltd, which have been assigned the provenance of Pigments Plant at Laverton.


Inventory Listing

6-1 Clearance Certificates
Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1989 - 1990    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Forms
Inventory Identifier PMA0061 Box Number 22 Series 6
6-2 Clearance Procedures and Authorisations
Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1964 - 1990    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Diagrams, Drafts, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes, Forms and Manuals
Inventory Identifier PMA0912 Box Number 22 Series 6
6-3 Pre-Closure Arrangements 1990-1991

This file includes papers addressed to or written by Alan Barlee and Rino Boccalatte, and memos addressed to General Managers and "Divisional" Management. It also contains Board Meetings Minutes.

The papers in this file relate to issues around the closure, demolition and remediation of the site, as well as discussions around timetables for closure, staff redundancy packages, reasons for closure etc.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1990 - 1991    Quantity 4.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Graphs, Drafts, Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes, Talks and/or Speeches, Facsimile Transmissions, Lists and Tables of data
Inventory Identifier PMA0913 Box Number 22 Series 6
6-4 Altona Petrochemical Company (APC) - PMA Correspondence

Includes Trans-West Haulage Pty Ltd correspondence about the transportation of dilute acid from PMA to APC.

Papers include correspondence and memos between Trans-West Haulage Pty Ltd, Altona Petrochemical Company, and A. Barlee, D. R. Harris, H. Grayson and J. Owens from Pigment Manufacturers of Australia.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 8 August 1973 - 12 September 1975    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Memoranda, Loose Notes and Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier PMA0914 Box Number 22 Series 6
6-5 Stationery Price List - June 22nd, 1988
Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 22 June 1988    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Lists
Inventory Identifier PMA0915 Box Number 22 Series 6
6-6 EPA Licences and Trade Waste Analysis

Some of the papers in this item are marked "DRH" [D. R. Harris].

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1986    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Reports and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PMA0916 Box Number 22 Series 6
6-7 EPA Forms - Discharge of Waste to Air
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Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1960? - 1991?, No dates.    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Forms
Inventory Identifier PMA0917 Box Number 22 Series 6
6-8 Productivity Improvement Meeting Minutes, and Other Papers

Includes Productivity Committee Meeting minutes, minutes marked Productivity News, and a newsletter entitled "Explosive Newz".

Some of the papers from 1984 at the start of the file look to have been distributed to Alan Barlee, or are marked with his name. Many of the subsequent papers (1975 to 1983) are marked "DRH" or "Mr. D. R. Harris", or look to have been distributed to him.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1975 - 1984    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats Minutes and Agendas, Newsletters and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier PMA0918 Box Number 22 Series 6
6-9 Effluent - Ammoniacal Waste Handling

A small number of papers in this file are marked "ARB", and feature the codes K11, F5, B5, B6, or C11. These codes relate to categories in the General Manager's filing system. For more information, see Series 4.

Many of the papers are to or from Simon Balfour-Browne.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1964 - 1990, Mainly 1990    Quantity 5 cm, 1 file
Formats Accounts, General Correspondence, Reports, Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes, Facsimile Transmissions, Proposals and/or Submissions and Calculations
Inventory Identifier PMA0919 Box Number 22 Series 6
6-10 Correspondence and Other Business

The majority of papers in this file are marked "ARB", and feature the codes J13, J9, J6, J12, J11, I1, H15, G5, G7, F13, F2, A4, A2, or B4. These codes relate to categories in the General Manager's filing system. For more information, see Series 4.

Includes meeting timetables, staff objectives, papers regarding waste, export possibilities, management reports, correspondence to staff, files about the PMA Award and redundancy agreements, and PMA Social Club meeting minutes.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1980 - 1991, Mainly 1990-91.    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Reports, Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas, Loose Notes, Photocopied Documents and Charts
Inventory Identifier PMA0920 Box Number 23 Series 6
6-11 Laverton High School
Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 6 June 1988    Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Loose Notes and Talks and/or Speeches
Inventory Identifier PMA0922 Box Number 23 Series 6
6-12 Technical Relations - Correspondence with ICI and BASF regarding Technical Matters
Part 1 of 2

This file includes telex's between ICI and PMA and BASF, loose notes, christmas cards, travel itineraries, postcards, drafts, correspondence, non-migrant visa applications, technical circulations. Many of them are related to technical development and procedures, and feature the names of D. R. Harris, L. Rowley and D. K. Grant. Some of the items are marked "DRH - File"; one item marked "Mr D R Harris - file" and another item marked "Mr A. R. Barlee - File".

This description covers both Parts 1 and 2 of the file.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range c. 1980 - c. 1983    Quantity 3.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, Ephemera, Memoranda, Loose Notes, Photocopied Documents, Telexes or Telegrams and Itineraries
Inventory Identifier PMA0954 Box Number 23 Series 6
6-13 Technical Relations - Correspondence with ICI and BASF regarding Technical Matters
Part 2 of 2

This file includes telex's between ICI and PMA and BASF, loose notes, christmas cards, travel itineraries, postcards, drafts, correspondence, non-migrant visa applications, technical circulations. Many of them relate to technical development and procedures, and feature the names of D. R. Harris and L. Rowley and D. K. Grant. Some of the items are marked "DRH - File"; one item marked "Mr D R Harris - file" and another item marked "Mr A. R. Barlee - File".

This description covers both Parts 1 and 2 of the file.

Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1973 - 1980    Quantity 3.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, Ephemera, Memoranda, Loose Notes and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier PMA1162 Box Number 23 Series 6
6-14 Suggestions for Monastral Plant Improvement

Many of these papers in this file are marked "RB" (possibly refering to Rino Boccalatte). One item is marked B1.

Creator Pigments Plant at Laverton
Date range 1961 - 1964    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Diagrams, Ephemera, Memoranda, Loose Notes, Drawings and/or Plans and Lists
Inventory Identifier PMA0974 Box Number 122 Series 6
6-15 Lunches - Order Forms and Price List
Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1981 - c. 1986    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Lists
Inventory Identifier PMA0975 Box Number 23 Series 6
6-16 Taxis - Logbook
Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1967 - 1987    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Notebooks
Inventory Identifier PMA0976 Box Number 23 Series 6
6-17 Productivity Promotion Council of Australia - Productivity Group Project Award 1980 - Presented to Westgate Group
Creator Pigment Manufacturers of Australia Limited (PMA Ltd)
Date range 1980    Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 award plaque
Formats Artefacts or Objects/Realia
Inventory Identifier PMA1003 Box Number 23 Series 6

Published by the The University of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, December 2008
Listed by Barbara Cytowicz, Ann McCarthy, Gavan McCarthy, Michael Jones, Rachel Tropea
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