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22 . AGM, 13 Mar. 1940, Proceedings , Vol.21, Oct. 1940, Parts I & II. 23 . AGM, 10 Mar. 1942, Proceedings , Vol.23, Dec. 1942. (These minutes also record that Colonel William Nash was a PoW, and had been instructing fellow prisoners on the subject of factory administration and management.) 24 . AGM, 10 Mar. 1943, Proceedings , Vol.24, Dec. 1943. 25 . AGM, 17 Mar. 1948, Proceedings , Vol.29, June 1948, Part I. 26 . AGM, 21 Mar. 1956, Proceedings , Vol.37, June 1956, Part II. (He died in December 1955.) 27 . Gammie, A.P., “Development in Newsprint Broke Handling”, Proceedings , Vol.38, June 1957, Part II, pp.439-447. Cash equivalence calculated using website www.measuringworth.com. 28 . AGM, 25 Mar. 1959, Proceedings , Vol.40, June 1959, Part II. (It is worth noting that the successor to this award, the Julius Grant Prize, which is still on the books of PITA today, suffers from the same problem – lack of interest from the target audience.) 31 . AGM, 21 Mar. 1956, Proceedings , Vol.37, June 1956, Part II. Mention of the special committee formed for this purpose certainly pre-date this minute, but an earlier one cannot be identified. In a special report for the year 1956, Proceedings , Vol.38, June 1957, Part II, it was stated that the Committee was formed in 1955. Meanwhile, the first Chairman, Dr. Toby Rance, wrote a history of the FRC where he stated that its formation dated from late 1954: Rance, H.F., “History of the FRC – a committee of the Pulp and Paper Fundamental Research Society”, Paper Technology , Vol.38, No.7, Sept. 1997, pp.24-26. 32 . The ‘Committee’ is still inexistence: see ‘FRC – The Pulp and Paper Fundamental Research Society’, www.ppfrs.org. 33 . Autumn General Meeting, 29 Oct. 1958, Proceedings , Vol.39, Dec. 1958, Part III. 34 . Gray, J.N., “The Old ‘ Hand-Made ’ Paper Industry”, Proceedings , Vol.2, 1921, Part I, pp.86- 93. 35 . Autumn General Meeting, 21 Oct. 1959, Proceedings , Vol.40, Dec. 1959, Part III. 36 . PITA Annual Review 2019-2020 , pp.20-21; The Quarterly , No.114, Apr. 2020, pp.29-31. 37 . Paper Technology International , Vol.61, No.2, 2020, p.33; The Quarterly , No.116, Oct. 2020, pp.36-39. 38 . An edited version of this article appeared in Paper Technology International , Vol.61, No.3, 2020, pp.26-27. 29 . AGM, 17 Mar, 1948, Proceedings , Vol.29, June 1948, Part I. 30 . AGM, 15 Mar. 1950, Proceedings , Vol.31, June 1950, Part II. 39 . The Golden Jubilee edition of Paper Technology , Vol.11, No.3, 1970, is an excellent repository of information, and reproduces many papers form the Ninety-Ninth Annual Conference, “The British Papermaking Industry – Technical Progress over the past 50 Years, Present and Future Developments”. This includes Prior, P.H., “The Beginnings of the Technical Section”, pp.179 - 182; and Wrist, P.E., “1920 - 1970: A Technical Perspective”, pp.182-187. 40 . For example, a million tonnes of production capacity was lost in 1980 alone: Paper Technology , Vol.22, No.4, 1981, p.110. Production in 1979 was 4.2Mt ( Paper Technology , Vol.21, No.4, 1980, p.115) which shows the huge percentage change that occurred in 1980. 41 . Paper Technology , Vol.34, No.10, 1993, p.10; Paper Technology , Vol.35, No.9, 1994, p.2. 42 . Paper Technology , Vol.15, No.1, 1974, pp.3 & 4. The two entities combined on 10 Jan. 1974. 43 . PIRA was formed by the merger of The Paper and Board Research Association at Kenley with the Printing and Allied Trades Research Association (PATRA) at Leatherhead – Paper Technology , Vol.10, No.5, 1969, p.366. People and equipment completed the transfer from the Kenley site to Leatherhead over a couple of years – Paper Technology , Vol.12, No.3, 1971, p.207. PIRA existed as a separate entity for a long period, changing name to PIRA International at some point. PIRA International was acquired by Ciba Geigy in March 2004,
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