Association of British Chemical Manufacturers

Quarterly Safety Summaries, London, Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, 1930-1964... 

No systematic catalog of the German documents corresponding to the BSIR was published in England instead, the emphasis was put on summaries of the information in the documents, written by British experts. These summaries will be discussed below. The chemical documents were listed, however, by the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers (ABCM), in lists distributed to their members. In addition to the FD... 

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The editor s reference to co-operation in Britain hardly included the type of close industry-academic links that had existed in Germany since the 1880s. He was referring to the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers encouragement of co-operation between chemical producers, and of close links with government departments, which to some extent influenced parliament. In common with many innovations in the British chemical industry, the association was itself a product of enforced wartime cooperation, having been founded in 1916. After World War I, a number of chemical trade and scientific research associations had been formed in Britain. The latter had been set up under the aegis of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, itself a wartime creation (1916), and had close links with universities. The Chemical Research Laboratory, renamed the National Chemical Laboratory in 1928, was also an outcome of these initiatives. 

For reasons that remain unclear, it was not until April 1921 that the report of Hartley s Mission of 1919 was published as a parliamentary paper and even then, it appeared only in an abbreviated version. Its appearance, however, met vocal support from British industry, including the Association of British Chemical Manufactures, already anxious to safeguard British industry, and to ensure that Germany was not taking advantage of the situation. 

Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, Report of the British chemical mission on the chemical factories in the occupied area of Germany (London, 1919) Confidential Report on the leather mission to the occupied areas in Germany, Jul 1919 (Public Record Office London, DSIR 36/1898) J.E. Fletcher, and J.G. Pearce, "Continental Foundry Developments. Research Institutions and works laboratories for pure and applied research" (Jan 1926), Public Record Office London, DSIR 36/4238. 

The Chemical Council is a body which was established in 1935 by the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry, with representatives from the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, the Faraday Society, the Society for Analytical Chemistry and the Biochemical Society. It acts as trustees for various funds contributed by industry which are used for subsidies to the constituent societies to meet deficits in the costs of their publications, to assist in the publication of abstracts, and to support the maintenance of the library of the Chemical Society. 

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