Catalogue description COOPER MCDOUGALL & ROBERTSON

This record is held by Museum of English Rural Life

Details of TR CMR
Reference: TR CMR
Title: COOPER MCDOUGALL & ROBERTSON
Description:

The bulk of the records are of printed advertising material recovered from the firm's printers

Date: c1882-1989
Held by: Museum of English Rural Life, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Cooper, McDougall and Robertson, veterinary suppliers

Physical description: 60 documents
Immediate source of acquisition:

T72/47; DX65; DX480

 

and deposited at the Rural History Centre in 1969. A number of smaller additions have been made subsequently.

Subjects:
  • Veterinary medicine
Administrative / biographical background:

William Cooper founded his veterinary business in Berkhamsted in about 1840, and in the following years developed chemical sheep dips. He was joined in the business by some of his nephews, and the firm became known as William Cooper & Nephews until it merged with McDougall & Robertson in 1925 to form Cooper McDougall & Robertson Ltd. In 1959-60 the firm was bought by the Wellcome Foundation. Later ICI acquired an interest in the firm, which was later renamed Coopers Animal Health Ltd. It was wound up c 1990.

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