The Ballast Trust is a charitable foundation that was established in 1988 by Dr William Lind to provide a rescue, sorting and cataloguing service for business archives with an emphasis on technical records such as shipbuilding, railway and engineering plans, drawings and photographs. More information about the Trust can be found on our website (here). ...
The Ballast Trust was set up carry out appraisal, listing, cataloguing and provide temporary storage of large accumulations of technical records from engineering and other businesses in Scotland.The Trust has given archive repositories access to specialist skills and knowledge in technical records which allows those collections that require (or at least benefit) from specialist knowledge to be processed. With a focus on records...
