Ballast Trust

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.

The Ballast Trust works with organisations within the archive and business communities. We have worked closely with Glasgow University since our establishment and have strong links with the Archive Services and the Centre for Business History in Scotland.

Further information about the Ballast Trust can be found on the website.

To complement the website, we have started an organisational blog that will allow us to share the unique way we work, some of the images we have, provide updates about the cataloguing of collections and give us a space to reveal the interesting items we discover.  Our blog can be found at http://ballastblog.blogspot.com.

We welcome any comments or suggestions.