Box 1

Folder. Notebooks (3); Alfred Brake, Organ Builder Letterheads (4).

Folder. Correspondence, undated.

Folder. Correspondence, 1902-1903.

Folder. Correspondence, 1904.

Folder. Correspondence, 1905.

Folder. Correspondence, 1906.

Folder. Correspondence, 1907-1908.

Folder. Correspondence, 1910-1912.

Folder. Correspondence, 1913.

Folder. Correspondence, 1914-1915.

Folder. Correspondence, 1916-1945.

Letter book. Outward correspondence, 13 September 1901 - 17 September 1902.

Letter book. Outward correspondence, 13 November 1902 - 16 August 1906.

Folder. Personal correspondence - six letters to his aunt, mother and daughter; donated by Linda Fernandez in 2022. With transcripts.

  Box 2

Patents:

0. Date: 11 October 1899; no.: 9688; Regarding ‘An Improved method of and apparatus for measuring...'. [Half of the patent missing].

1. Date: 24 July 1900; Folio no.: 10335; No. 12109; Country: United Kingdom; Regarding ‘Improvements in or relating to the delivery of larger beer and like frothing liquids’. Includes patent certificate, description and designs for patented product, envelope.

2. Date: 19 March 1904; Folio no.: 7055; No. 108 of 1904; Country: Transvaal; Regarding ‘Improvements in apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Includes patent certificate, envelope.

3. Date: 26 July 1900; Folio no.: 10374; No. 13490; Country: United Kingdom; Regarding ‘Improvements in apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Includes patent certificate, description and designs for patented product, envelope.

4. Date: 14 May 1903; No.: 10967; Country: England; Regarding: ‘Improvements in organs harmoniums and the like.’ Includes patent certificate, letter from Patent Office re. patent renewal fees, envelope.

5. Date: 27 July 1907; Folio no.: 6159; No.: 313013; Country: France; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Documentation in French. Includes patent certificate, description and designs for patented product, envelope.

6. Date: 29 August 1901; Folio no.: 6171; No.: 2303; Country: Cape of Good Hope; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Includes patent certificate, description and designs for patented product, envelope.

7. Date: 1 July 1901; Folio no.: 6034; No.: 44; Country: Prague River Colony; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Includes patent certificate, envelope.

8. Patent application information.

9. Date: 24 April 1901; Country: United Kingdom; Regarding: ‘Improvements in apparatus for drawing of liquids’. Includes patent certificate, envelope.

10. Date: 30 July 1901; Country: Germany. Documentation in German. Includes patent certificate.

11. Printed description and designs for patented product ‘Improvements in fountains or engines for drawing off and dispensing aerated waters, ginger, larger, malt and other beers, wines and spirits, either by gravity, pressure or carbonic acid gas or compressed air’. 7pp, undated.

12. Date: 24 July 1901; Country: France. Documentation in French. Includes patent certificate.

13. Date: 10 September 1901; No.: Vol. 16 Fol. 19; Country: State of Victoria; Regarding: ‘Improvements in apparatus for drawing off liquids.’

14. Date: 23 December 1941; Regarding provisional specification for ‘Improved means for used in purifying air and for employing it in respect of milking and other milk treating appliances.’

15. Country: France. Documentation in French. Includes patent certificate. Includes patent certificate, description and designs for patented product.

16. Date: 20 June 1900; Folio no.: 10302; No.: 11169; Country: United Kingdom; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Includes patent certificate, envelope.

17. Date: 25 September 1901; Folio no.: 6107; No.: 182XXVI, 272XXVI and 68XXVI; Country: Egypt; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Documentation in Arabic. Includes patent certificate, envelope.

18. Date: 15 November 1902; Folio no.: 6148; No.: 11406; Country: Austria; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Includes letter from patent office, envelope.

19. Date: 10 September 1901; Folio no.: 6167; No.: 18492; Country: Victoria; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Includes letter from patent office, envelope.

20. Date: 10 September 1901; Folio no.: 6609; No.: 19604; Country: Victoria; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’. Includes letter from patent office, envelope.

Empty patent office envelopes:

- Date: 20 March 1901; Folio no.: 5910; No.: 324 of 1900; Country: India; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’.

- Date: 24 July 1901; Folio no.: 6152; No.: 157814; Country: Belgium; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’.

- Date: 7 September 1901; Folio no.: 6174; No.: 3530; Country: Western Australia; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’.

- Date: 13 September 1901; Folio no.: 6176; No.: 5390; Country: South Australia; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’.

- Date: 19 September 1901; Folio no.: 6175; No.: 3176 and 2955; Country: Tasmania; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’.

- Date: 14 April 1903; Folio no.: 6143; No.: 25211; Country: USA; Regarding: ‘Apparatus for drawing off liquids’.

Legal documents:

1. Writ of Summons. Alfred Brake vs. Walter Radermacher. 15 June 1904.

2. Indenture. Alfred Brake and Tooth & Co. Limited. 27 January 1903.

3. Appointment of lawyer. Edward Patman Coulter and Alfred Brake. 27 October 1904.

4. Agreement for financial assistance. Alfred Brake and Ninian Miller Thomson. 2 July 1900.

5. Power of Attorney of Alfred Brake over Thomas Small Hooper. 13 February 1900.

Folder. Loose appartus designs.