[RAPRA collection of glass plate negatives illustrative of the history of rubber and rubber industries. Approximately 1000 negatives, numbered N1 to N36 and 2 to 1480 (with gaps), covering the Hancock brothers, places, objects and documents, plantations and tapping, synthetic rubber and chemical plant from the 1940s, etc. Many images have been taken from books. There is a listing of images 1 to 777 and a subject index to images 1 to 567. Many are portraits. The collection was begun by the Research Association of British Rubber and Tyre Manufacturers which changed its name in 1928 to the Research Association of British Rubber Manufacturers and in 1960 to the Rubber and Plastics Research Association of Great Britain (RAPRA). 7 boxes]