Introduction
A
Annual reports, accounts, meeting and other
papers
B
Administrative and technical papers concerning production
and sales of equipment, especially fans
C
Papers relating to staff
D
Company publications
E
Personal papers of P. Ghosh relating to his employment
with the GEC of India Ltd.
F
Professional papers of P. Ghosh
| Abstract: Papers of the General Electric Company of India Ltd, with personal papers of P. Ghosh (b.1926), Indian electrical engineer. |
Panchu Gopal (P.) Ghosh was born in 1926 at Simla, India, the son of Niharbala and Rai Sahib Ashutosh Ghosh, Assistant Deputy Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs for the Government of India. He was educated at the Modern High School at New Delhi and the Presidency College, Calcutta. Between 1948 and 1951 Ghosh initially worked in the railway industry, resigning as a Junior Electrical Chargeman to join the GEC of India Ltd as a trainee in the Contracts Department. He was to remain with this company for the rest of his working life, transferring to the Fan Sales Department as an assistant in 1955, then becoming an increasingly senior manager in successive reorganisations of the fan-making operation, culminating as Deputy Head of the Fans Division by the time of his retirement in 1984.
Ghosh was an active member of several professional organisations: the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London; the Institute of Standards Engineers, India; the Indian Standards Institution, representing the fan making industry; the Fan Makers Association of India, representing the Company and serving as chairman 1963-5; and the Indian Engineering Association. In 1975 Ghosh was the Indian delegate to the International Electrotechnical Commission's meeting at the Hague, Netherlands, and in 1977 he served on the Indian Government's Working Group on Reliability Engineering in India.
The papers comprise papers of the GEC of India Ltd., together with personal papers of P. Ghosh, a senior executive of the Company, relating to his professional career.
The material was generated and collected by P. Ghosh in the course of his career with the GEC of India Ltd.
Oxford, Bodleian Library [followed by shelfmark, e.g. MS. Eng. c. 7388].
Records of GEC of India's parent company in the United Kingdom, the General Electric Company, are included in the Marconi Archives.
| The GEC of India annual reports and meeting papers,
1956-92 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7388 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Comprises:
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| GECAlsthom India, GENELEC and AEI (India) annual reports
and meeting papers,
1982-95 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7389 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Comprises:
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| Miscellaneous papers including a brief history of the
GEC of India Ltd. 1931-46, administrative papers and circulars and blank forms
on personnel matters,
1959-82 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7390 Extent: 1 box |
| Correspondence and papers relating to production and
sales,
1952-76 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7391 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Comprises:
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| Advertising leaflets, brochures, price lists and
descriptive leaflets for various equipment,
1967-83 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7392 Extent: 1 box |
| Correspondence and papers concerning advertising and
sales of fans, especially ceiling fans,
1951-75 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7393 Extent: 1 box |
| Technical papers on fans,
1961-75 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7394 Extent: 1 box |
| Abridged catalogue and price list,
1954 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3811 Extent: 2 vols |
| Papers for the Branch Managers' Conference 1968, with
some minutes and papers for other Branch and Regional Managers' Conferences,
1968-73 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3812 Extent: 1 box |
| Staff lists and directories and Staff Club records,
1955-83 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7395 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Comprises:
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| Company publications,
1968-83 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7396 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Comprises:
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| Correspondence and papers about Ghosh's employment with
and retirement from the GEC of India Ltd.,
1951-90 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7397 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Comprises:
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| Further correspondence and papers concerning Ghosh's
work for the company,
1951-90 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7398 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Comprises:
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| Correspondence and papers concerning the Fan Makers
Association, including drafts and copies of Presidential address by Ghosh at
its AGM,1956-87 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7399 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Includes:
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| Correspondence and papers concerning the Institute of
Standards Engineers,
1968-84 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7400 Extent: 1 box |
| Correspondence and papers relating to other professional
organisations,
1945-98 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7401 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Comprises papers concerning:
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| Miscellaneous professional publications and reports,
1960-79 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7402 Extent: 1 box Scope and Content: Includes:
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