BP Archive (Numerical list)
226916: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, April 1926
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights ending 13th and 27th April 1926.226917: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, May 1926
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights ending 11th, 25th and 31st May 1926.226918: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, June 1926
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 8th, 22nd, 29th and 30th June 1926.226919: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, July 1926
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 13th, 27th and 31st July 1926.226920: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, August 1926
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 10th, 24th and 31st August 1926.226921: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, September 1926
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 14th, 28th and 29th/30th September 1926.226922: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, October 1926
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 12th, 26th and 31st October 1926.226923: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, November 1926
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 9th, 23rd and 30th November 1926.226924: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, December 1926
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 14th, 28th and 31st December 1926.226925: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, January 1927
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 11th and 25th January and 1st February 1927226926: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, February 1927
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 8th and 22nd February and 1st March 1927.226927: Pumpherston Works Abstracts, March 1927
Bundle containing handwritten financial abstracts for Pumpherston Works for the fortnights/weeks ending 8th, 22nd and 29th March 1927.226928: The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited, Pumpherston Salaries Book, April 1924 to March 1925
Wages/salaries book for the Pumpherston Oil Company Limited running from April 1924 to March 1925. Book contains names of employees. designation (ie job), details of time worked, wages earned and deductions made.226929: The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited, Pumpherston Salaries Book, April 1925 to March 1926
Wages/salaries book for the Pumpherston Oil Company Limited running from April 1925 to March 1926. Book contains names of employees. designation (ie job), details of time worked, wages earned and deductions made.226930: The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited, Pumpherston Salaries Book, April 1926 to March 1927
Wages/salaries book for the Pumpherston Oil Company Limited running from April 1926 to September 1927. Book contains names of employees. designation (ie job), details of time worked, wages earned and deductions made.226931: The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited, Pumpherston Salaries Book, September 1927 to January 1929
Wages/salaries book for the Pumpherston Oil Company Limited running from September 1927 to January 1929. Book contains names of employees. designation (ie job), details of time worked, wages earned and deductions made.226932: The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited, Pumpherston Salaries Book, February 1929 to November 1930
Wages/salaries book for the Pumpherston Oil Company Limited running from February 1929 to November 1930. Book contains names of employees. designation (ie job), details of time worked, wages earned and deductions made.226933: The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited, Pumpherston Salaries Book, December 1930 to August 1932
Wages/salaries book for the Pumpherston Oil Company Limited running from December 1930 to August 1932 Book contains names of employees. designation (ie job), details of time worked, wages earned and deductions made.226934: The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited, Pumpherston Salaries Book, September 1932 to August 1934
Wages/salaries book for the Pumpherston Oil Company Limited running from September 1932 to August 1934. Book contains names of employees. designation (ie job), details of time worked, wages earned and deductions made.226935: Scottish Oils Limited, Pumpherston Refinery, Refining Cost Sheets, 1958 Revenue Estimates
Undated folder containing revenue financial planning documents for Refining at the Pumpherston Refinery for 1958.226936: Scottish Oils Limited, Pumpherston Refinery, Refining Cost Sheets, 1959 Revenue Estimates
Undated folder containing revenue financial planning documents for Refining at the Pumpherston Refinery for 1959226937: Scottish Oils Limited, Pumpherston Refinery, Refining Cost Sheets, 1960 Revenue Estimates
Undated folder containing revenue financial planning documents for Refining at the Pumpherston Refinery for 1960.226940: Safety Regulations, Pumpherston Works
File containing typed copy of the Safety Regulations for the Pumpherston Works. Stamped and dated Pumpherston Oil Refinery Laboratory, 9th September 1946.226941: The Evaluation of Paraffix Wax, A Review
Typed Burmah Oil Company Limited Report No FR 346/34, dated 16th February 1934. Report has a foreword by W J Wilson. The report is in two parts. Part I, Wax Hardness: its evaluation and interpretation by S Tinchin; Part II, the Rupture Strength Test for Paraffin by R E Downer. Two loose graphs at back of file: effect of FBP of pressable wax distillate on oil content of second scale; relationship between FBP at 40mms HG of Pressable Wax Distillate and Oil Content of Second Scale. Covered in brown paper.226942: Pumpherston Cracking Plant, No 4 Unit, Run Reports
File containing run reports for the No 4 Unit at the Pumpherston Refinery Cracking Plant from 4th September 1931 to 9th February 1933.226943: Pumpherston Cracking Plant, No 2 Unit, Daily Run Reports
File containing daily run reports for the No 2 Unit at the Pumpherston Refinery Cracking Plant, from 11th April to 22nd Septempber 1930.226944: Rail Cars
Subject file containing information relating to the rail cars of Scottish Oils Ltd. and its constituent companies, including inventories. Documents cover period roughly 1951 to 1954.226945: Reports on Refining
Subject file containing copies of typed reports on Refining produced at Middleton Hall. Reports included on file are: Notes on Plant required for Refining Scheme based on Shale Oil Refining Report No 4, dated 31st January 1936; flow chart showing Pumpherston Programme, making diesel Oil with present equipment, dated 9th January 1936; Refining of Crude Shale Oil, by E M Bailey and W B Peutherer, dated 15th June 1935; Refining of Crude Shale Oil, Second Report, by E M Bailey, Chief Chemist, 15th August 1935; Redistillation of Treated Diesel Oil, by W B Peutherer, dated 3rd October 1935; Pumpherston Programme based on Report on Refining of Crude Shale Oil (No 4), Crude Fractions prepared in Works and refined in Laboratory, dated 30th November 1935; Pumpherston Programme based on Reports Nos 5 and 6 on Refining of Crude Shale Oil, dated 21st January 1936; Refining of Crude Shale Oil, 4th Report, by Geo Grant, D Paul and W B Peutherer, dated 18th November 1935; Refining of Crude Shale Oil, 5th Report, by Geo Grant, D Paul and W B Peutherer. Dated 26th December 1935; Refining of Crude Shale Oil, 6th Report, by Geo Grant and W B Peutherer; Refining of Crude Shale Oil, Summary of work on SO2 treatment of Shale Oil with Reference to Diesel Oil Production, dated 12th February 1936; Refining of Crude Shale Oil, Summary of Work on SO2 treatment of Shale Oil with reference to Diesel Oil Production, by G H Smith, dated 17th February 1936; Refining of Crude Shale Oil, 7th Report, by E M Bailey and W B Peutherer, dated 12th February 1936.226946: General Interest
Subject file, entitled general interest, containing four typed documents. These are: Dr James Young, A Brief Biography by H R J Conacher (Oil Shale and Cannel Coal, 1938); note on Pumpherston Works, dated 4th June 1942; note on Westwood Works, undated; Sulphuric Acid Chamber Plants, Notes on Process Control, dated 16th February 1955. Scottish Oils Limited226947: Oil of Vitriol Works
Note book with O.V., Oil of Vitriol Works as the title on the front, containing handwritten notes, including hand drawn diagrams from 1884 to 1909 relating to testing results from the use of different types of equipment in the refining process of sulphuric acid. Exact provenance and owner/creator of the note book is unknown. The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226948: Pumpherston Refinery Reports
File containing originally loose papers which consists of two different series of reports relating to Pumpherston Refinery . The first reports are the Pumpherston Cracking Plant No 1 Unit, Run Reports from 19th March 1930 to 17th November 1932. The second series of reports are the Summary of Production Figures from Monthly Stock Returns from November 1930 to November 1933. There are also some reports from 1930 relating to trials runs from Plant No 1 Unit at the Pumpherston Refinery. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited.226949: Pumpherston Refinery Cracking Plant No 1 Unit, Weekly and Run Reports and Monthly Summaries of all Four Units
Subject file with title as given. Contents are limited and it may be that the reports/documents in ARC226948 were originally in this file, but were in a separate box when listed. This folder actually contains: Operating Instructions for Run 4 (undated); Run Report No 4, dated 13th March 1930; Pumpherston Cracking Unit No 1 Unit, Commissioning Report, week ending 17th March 1930; Memo on Raw Stock for Pumpherston Cracker, undated; Run Reports for 7th December 1932 to 3rd February 1933; Summary of Production Figures from Monthly Stock Returns, December 1932. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226950: Wax Extraction, Comparison of Pumpherston and B.O.C. Operations
Typed report from mid-1943, by G H Smith, Chief Chemist, and W B Peutherer from the Central Laboratory at Middleton Hall, Uphall comparing the wax extraction of Pumpherston Refinery and the Burmah Oil Company Operations in Syriam. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226951: Match Wax, Messrs Bryant & May
Subject file containing a series of memoranda from Pumpherston Laboratory to Mr A Hyman in Teddington providing details of production of Paraffin Wax in Pumpherston Refinery by day. Covers period 19th March to 13th November 1943. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226952: New Paraffin Extraction Plant
Subject file containing correspondence and reports relating to the new Paraffin Extraction Plant at Pumpherston Refinery. The documents include details on operation of the plant and results of test undertaken using the Paraffin Extraction Plant. Some specific reports on file include: Report on Operation of New Paraffin Wax Extraction Plant, Pumpherston Refinery, by Geo Grant, 17th November 1936; Second Report on Operation of New Paraffin Wax Extraction Plant, Pumpherston Refinery, Geo Grant, 17th March 1937; Report on Experiments carried out on Filter Pressing of Heavy Oil and Paraffin at Pumpherston Refinery, by W B Peutherer, 14th July 1937; Report No SO.M/26/39, 23rd February 1939, Wax Extraction, Pumpherston Refinery, Effect of Raising Temperature of First Cooling of HO&P from 32 degrees Fahrenheit to 45 degrees Fahrenheit by G H Smith; Report No SPO/322/39, First Test on First Cooling of HO& Paraffin in Wax Extraction Plant using Interchanger and One Cooler and Two Filter Presses, by Geo Grant, 24th April 1939; Estimate of Steam Consumption in Wax Sweating Department, 14th March 1939. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226953: Pumpherston Refinery, No 1 Crude Oil Distillation Unit
Subject file containing correspondence and reports relating to the operation of the No 1 Crude Oil Distillation Unit at Pumpherston Refinery, all from the period 1939 to 1943. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226954: Match Wax, Messrs Bryant & May
Subject file containing a series of memoranda, from Pumpherston Laboratory to Mr A Hyman in Teddington providing details of production of Paraffin Wax in Pumpherston Refinery by day from 21st May 1942 to 18th March 1943. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226955: Pumpherston North Bing, Inspection at Quarries Book
M&Q Form No 236 in compliance with the Mines and Quarries Act, 1954 and the Quarries (General Regulations) 1956, Book for Reports of Inspections at Quarries for the North Bing at Pumpherston. Contains daily inspection reports from 18th December 1967 to 9th July 1970. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226956: Agreements between the Scottish Shale Oil Companies and the National Union of Shale Miners and Oil Workers
Printed booklet detailing the agreements between the Scottish Shale Oil Companies and the National Union of Shale Miners and Oil Workers as at November 1958. Scottish Oils Limited226957: Pumpherston Refinery Yields from Shale Oil (corrected for Stocks)
File containing monthly details of yields from Shale Oil for Pumpherston Refinery, from 1939 t9 1963. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226958: Costs
File containing summary details relating to the costs of the Pumpherston Refinery Operation. Costs analysis includes: Despatching Costs; Cooperage Costs; Cracking Plant and Fuel Oil Distillation; Refining cost per gallon; Sulphate of Ammonia, cost per ton; Caustic Soda, etc. Cost sheets mainly relate to 1940 and 1941, but some tables at the beginning of the file have data back to 1932. Scottish Oils Limited; The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited226973: Certificate of Honour presented to Midlothian Savings Committee, Wings for Victory National Savings Campaign
Certificate of Honour presented to the Midlothian Savings Committee in commemoration of success achieved during the Wings for Victory National Savings Campaign of 1943. Scottish Oils Limited226974: Air Raid Precautions, Handbook No 6
Booklet published by HMSO in 1938, Air Raid Precautions in Factories and Business Premises. First edition. Scottish Oils Limited226975: Group Photograph
Undated black and white group photograph. Most likely employees of the Pumpherston Oil Company at the presentation of long service awards on 7th January 1960. Photograph No 9841. Caption: Back Row: George Dick; James Doonan; Andrew Edwardson; William Findlay; Laurence Findlay; William Galloway; Front Row: David Blain; James Black; William Baxter; Robert Brown; John Burns; Charles Denholm. Scottish Oils Limited226976: Group Photograph
Scottish Oils Limited Undated black and white group photograph. Most likely employees of the Pumpherston Oil Company at the presentation of long service awards on 7th January 1960. Photograph No 9842. Caption: Back Row: John Martin; Donald Martin; Pat Mooney; John Murphy; Neil McGinty; Robert Paris; James McQueen; Front Row: Peter Hewitson; Thomas Horsburgh; Thomas Hill; Thomas Marr; George Gardner; Robert Laidlaw.226977: Group Photograph
Scottish Oils Limited Undated black and white group photograph. Most likely employees of the Pumpherston Oil Company at the presentation of long service awards on 7th January 1960. Photograph No 9843. Caption: Back Row: John Smith; Alex Splatt; Robert Splatt; John Stoddart; John Tobin; Thomas Tobin; Walter Wallace; Front Row: Charles Robertson; John Pennykid; James Renwick; Geo Richardson; Robert Rogers; Andrew Samuel.226978: Group Photograph
Scottish Oils Limited Undated black and white group photograph. Most likely employees of the Pumpherston Oil Company at the presentation of long service awards on 7th January 1960. Photograph No 9844. Caption: Back Row: Geo Wilkinson; Gerald Dobie; Alex Wood; David Dawson; William Begbie; William Clark; Peter Cross; Front Row: Ronald Webster; David Brown; Neil Wylie; James Armstrong; Neil Carr; James Carr.226979: Group Photograph
Scottish Oils Limited Undated black and white group photograph. Most likely employees of the Pumpherston Oil Company at the presentation of long service awards on 7th January 1960. Photograph No 9845. Caption: Back Row: Alex Hill; William McIntosh; John McGinty; Sam Maxwell; Arch Murphy; William Martin; Front Row: Hugh Fry; David Horsburgh; Hugh Edwardson; John Kilpatrick; William Marshall.226980: Group Photograph
Undated black and white group photograph. Most likely employees of the Pumpherston Oil Company at the presentation of long service awards on 7th January 1960. Photograph No 9846. Caption: Back Row: Geo McWilliams; William Scott; Robert Scott; David Wallace; Front Row: Paul McNamee; David Newton; John Orr; John Philbin; Alex Scoular.226981: Group Photograph
Scottish Oils Limited Undated black and white group photograph. Most likely employees of the Pumpherston Oil Company at the presentation of long service awards on 7th January 1960. Photograph No 9847. Caption: Back Row: William Watt; William Whitecross; Allan Steedman; Thomas Young; James Armstrong; Front Row: Joseph Wylie; John Wilson; Nellie Whyte; Sam Wilson; Robert Rae; John McCallum.226982: Group Photograph
Scottish Oils Limited Undated black and white group photograph. Most likely employees of the Pumpherston Oil Company at the presentation of long service awards on 7th January 1960. Photograph No 8960N. Caption: Back Row: Colin Falconer; Andrew Colvin; Robert Brown; James Cavanagh; David Armstrong; Angus Denholm; Edward Conway; Thomas Campbell; Frank Fox; Front Row: Thomas Couper; Mannus Bonnar; William Boag; Charles Boyle; Robert Allan; John Allan; James Anderson; John Black; Patrick Burke.226983: Group Photograph
Scottish Oils Limited Undated black and white group photograph. Most likely employees of the Pumpherston Oil Company at the presentation of long service awards on 7th January 1960. Photograph No 8962N. Caption: Back Row: Thomas McLuckie; Alexander McLean; George McLaughlan; Front Row: John Manderson; Charles Manderson; William Malloy; John McKellar; Peter Loch; Joshua Lyons; John McWilliams; John McEwan; William McDowall.