Album (now loose in box/folder) of flyers and advertisements from magazines/newspapers glued on A3 paper with annotations and dates. Maris Hustler, Maris Mink, Maris Mardler, Maris Sportsman, Maris Hobbit, Maris Kinsman (winter wheat), Highbury (spring wheat), Maris Oberon (spring oat), Panema and Pennal (winter oat), Pentland Javelin, Pentland Hawk, Pentland Squire Maris Piper, Maris Bard (potato), Maris Kestral and Merlin (kale), Maris Minak, Jupiter (spring barley), Maris Otter (malting barley), Quinta (oilseed rape). Misc. articles: includes 'The Seeds of Change' interview with Bob Maris (on Maris Huntsman, Sportsman, Kinsman, Hobbit and Freeman), NSDO News, Summer 1978, job advertisements for Marketing Manager and Marketing Assistant, article in the Scottish Farmer on new varieties of turnip (Appin), photo of Dick Knight (NSDO) with tayberries, article in British Farmer and Stockbreeder about NAIB's new system, new varieties and 'genetic manipulation' and article about NSDO.
Blue album containing NSDO leaflets/flyers advertising different varieties: Carnival, Corgi, Jupiter, Maris Minak, Maris Mink, Tintern, Tasman, Tricon and Tweed (sping barley); Halycon (winter barley); Maris Otter (malting barley); Margam and Maris Oberon (spring oats); Panema and Pennal (winter oats)
Yellow album containing NSDO leaflets/flyers advertising rygrass varieties: Augusta, Sabalan, S23 and S24, Sabrina and Trident, all bred at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station (NPBD) in Aberystwyth.
'National Seed Development Organisation Ltd. 1967-78'. Hardback book containing NSDO annual reports and accounts 1967-1976.
Alphabetically arranged catalogue of cereal varieties (loose pages from a file binder) in form of NSDO leaflets and annotated typed pages with information on the individual variety including origin, breeder, characteristics, resistance, quality, trial dates, tests, introduced/withdrawn dates etc. Includes list of varieties bred at the institute and dates introduced (1910-1975). PBI cereal varieties spreadsheet showing PBI name, codes, rights, grant nos., national list trial and NIAB trial dates and recommendations UK and overseas.
Alphabetically arranged catalogue of cereal varieties (loose pages from a file binder) in form of NSDO leaflets and annotated typed pages with information on the individual variety including origin, breeder, characteristics, resistance, quality, trial dates, tests, introduced/withdrawn dates etc. Includes NIAB recommended varieties of cereals 1978 and table of PBI contributions1970. PBI cereal varieties spreadsheet showing PBI name, codes, rights, grant nos., national list trial and NIAB trial dates and recommendations UK and overseas.
Certificates: Grant of Plant Breeders' Rights certificates issued by the Plant Variety Rights Office, mainly originals, issued to the PBI, NSDO, PBIC and three to companies in Germany, Austria and Holland. 29 original grants and 4 copies, some additional correspondence and paperwork.
3 albums of advertisements and flyers (one now loose in box), 1 folder of logo designs.
Designs for logos for cereal varieties.
Album (blue) of newspaper articles and photographs about PBI, particularly the merger with NSDO.