Archive Record
Metadata
Accession # |
A2003.44 |
Title |
Lyle R.J. Myers fonds, SERIES 4: reports, presentations, and workshops, 1942-1989. -- 18 cm. |
Date |
1942-1989 |
Description |
Lyle R.J. Myers fonds, SERIES 4, consists of reports of meetings, presentations, and workshops, with which Mr. Myers was associated, arranged chronologically by date, 1942-1977: File 1: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Ontario Agricultural and Experimental Union [leaflet, includes programme and membership information], Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 2 Jan. 1942. File 2: Sales Policy Conference, Mr. W.L. Ham, Chairman, 29 Nov. - 4 Dec, [1943].[210 pages, word-by-word account of meetings to consider reports from the branch offices and to discuss answers to the following questions re post-war planning: Should we again enter the retail field? Should the branch selling organizations handle a line of washing machines? Who should sell the "Madeleine" [washer]? Should we plan to control retail process? Giving help to the merchant. Ironing machines. The problem of dealer finance. On what terms should appliances be sold to the trade? Guarantees. Selling the jobber. Should prices be uniform from coast to coast? The basis for paying farm equipment salesmen. File 3: Beatty Bros. Limited ... 34th Annual Report for the fiscal year ended 31st Aug. 1946 [12 pages]. File 4: Welcome Beatty 75 Years of Service 1874-1949 [pamphlet]. File 5: Report, Gutter Cleaner, 1949. [includes "Report on a Trip to see Barn Cleaners in Operation, 11 May 1949; trip was made by E.H. Stevenson, W.J. Martin, T.A. Farnell and L.J. Myers. Includes correspondence from Charles H. Riches & Sons, Toronto, regarding various patents issued for mechanical gutter cleaners, conveyors; includes copies of patents issued, drawings; 30 Jan. 1913 - 18 Oct. 1949. File 6: Product notes, sketches; includes 6-page "Beatty-Clay Gutter Cleaner Manual", 16 March 1953; pencil drawings for: Bull Pen; Old Style Bull Pen Gate, 16 June 1949; Calf Pen Gate; Mangers, 12 Sept. 1949. Handwritten notes: Advantages of Steel Stalls; Barn Planning, 3 pages. 1949-1953. File 7: [Gutter Cleaner 2], ca.1949 [Includes advertising leaflets and brochures; includes installation manual for the Louden Barn Cleaner, which was sold by Beatty. 1951-1955 File 8: Beatty Bros. Celebrates 85th Anniversary 1874-1959 [4 pages]. File 9: Fact Finding Trip to Michigan and Illinois; includes handwritten notes; copy of "Farm Journal" [magazine], June 1963; aerial view of Albert Gehlbach farm, Lincoln, IL., 27 Aug. 1961; leaflets on Grain Storage, Hog Management, Labor Saving; Watering Facilities, Albert Gehlbach Farm, Lincoln, IL; Data entry sheets for Mahogany Farms; letter from Yordy Bros. Turkey Farm, Morton, IL. 16 Sept. 1963. 13-18 Aug. 1963. File 10: - Report - Visit to Prairie Farmer Farm Progress Show, Morton, Illinois; insludes handwritten notes, programme and list of exhibitors; Sept. 1963. File 11: - [Swine stabling]. Plans, beginning "Typical Ground Floor Plan Farrowing Barn," and lettered BT 64-12 to BT 64-20 [BT 64-16 missing]; and photos [removed to Series 2, Photographs], ca.1964. [see also Series 3, MAP 1015]. File 12: - National Dairy Cattle Congress [leaflet], Waterloo, Iowa, 3 - 10 Oct. 1964. File 12a: - Wallaces Farmer's 1965 Farm Progress Show [leaflet], Van Horne, Iowa, 21 - 23 Sept. 1965. File 13: - Farm Mechanization Workshop. Includes programme, handwritten notes; University of Guelph, 1-2 March 1966. File 14: - Ventilation. Includes letter of 18 Dec. 1964, in which Beatty Bros. division of General Steel Wares Limited ("Make or Buy Decision"), decides to purchase fans from Danor Manufacturing Co., Gorrie, Ont; product leaflets; letter from Henn-Rich Manufacturing Ltd., Manitoba, 11 March 1965; correspondence with Danor re supply of ventilating fan hoods, 13-page typescript: "Livestock Ventilation", 29 Dec. 1965; internal memo re Max Pressman's Beef Feed Barn, Manitoba, 31 Oct. 1966 File 15: - Sales Meeting, December 1967. [Lyle Myers presented "Manure Handling Systems" 18 Dec; "Ventilation", 19 Dec; "Confinement Systems", 20 Dec.; includes printed materials related to beef and dairy production facilities, and to the housing of swine]. File 16: - Sales Meeting, December 1969 [was in red three-ring binder with title "Beatty Farm Equipment Catalogue"; Lyle Myers presented "Specifying Bunk Feeders", 17 Dec 1969].[NOTE: vinyl binder stored in MU 484A]. File 17: - [Gambrell roof barn]. Photocopies of plans, ca.1970. File 18: - [Barn Design Assignments], ca.1970. Consists of seven assignments for designing barns for cattle, swine and horses; assignments are written[?] by C. Beecroft; at back, material specifications for pen equipment, April 1971; erection detail list, Dec. 1970; Stall width-row charts, Aug. 1969. File 19: - Beatty Farm Equipment Marketing Plan 1970-1974. Tabbed sections of about 10 pages each, as follows: Sales Plan; Marketing; Silo; Distributor; Engineering; on front cover: "L.R.J. Myers / Farm Lines Engineering"; 1970. File 20: - [Stabling] contained photos and plans [moved to those collections] of stalls, pens, cages, and ilustrations cut from Beatty Barn Book, 1953; overall 1952-1971. File 21: - Beatty Quarter Century Club 1971: Menu and Programme. Lists "L.R.J. Myers, 31 years, Fergus". 1971. File 22: - Business Cards, with lettering: "Beatty / one hundred years / L.R.J. Myers, P.Ag. / Manager, Special Sales and Engineering / Beatty Farm Equipment Company ...", 1974 ? File 23: - Notes. Includes internal memo [blank] Beatty Bros. Division of General Steel Wares Limited; invoice [blank] with lettering: "In Account With / LRJ Myers Enterprises / 215 Dawson Rd., Guelph, Ontario ...L.R.J. Myers, P.Ag."; keys for Drawings No1, No.2, No.3; Material specifications re blueprint No. M75-124, M75-125. 1970-1975. File 24: - Good Farming, Vol.28, No.4. copy addressed to L.R. Myers Enterprises, Box 953, Guelph, ON, N1H 6M6, Sept. 1977. File 25: - Circular coaster, with lettering: "Beatty Bros. War Workers 50th Year Reunion - 1939 - 1945 - 1989. File 26: - File created by WCMA, listing approximately 120 printed materials, 1951-1979, which arrived with the Lyle R.J. Myers fonds, and which were not accessioned, 2003. |
Creator \ Maker |
Myers, Lyle [compiler] |
Creator \ Maker |
Beecroft, C. [MAKER] |
Item Name |
Report Minutes Business Card |
Person \ Organization |
Beatty Brothers Beatty Quarter Century Club Beatty War Workers Beecroft, C. Danor Manufacturing Company Farnell, T. A. Ham, Wesley Linton Louden Martin, W. J. Myers, L. R. J. Myers, Lyle Ontario Agricultural College Stevenson, E. H. |
Place |
Fergus Gorrie |
Subject |
Aerial View Agriculture Architecture Commercial |
Year Range from |
1942 |
Year Range to |
1989 |
Accession # |
A2003.44 |
Containers |
MU 486 |