PART ONE

This story is a SUPPLEMENT to the Scott Bonnar Bloor Court Story.

The story of the relationship between Scott Bonnar and the William Anderson Atkinson Company is
a complex one; and the passage of time compels me to speculate as to the events and meaning of
the original research I present here. I hope it is a reasonable interpretation of the facts.

Atkinson & Company were wholesale and retail printers, stationers and button manufacturers of
Leigh Street, Adelaide.

Here is their location on my Bloor Court Mud Map. Leigh Street is a side street off the north-
side of Currie Street. The Atkinson building was only about 150 metres north-east of Scott Bonnar's
Bloor Court premises.

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GUIDING QUESTIONS:-

The Atkinson Story is important to Scott Bonnar history because their involvement with the man
Scott Bonnar helps explain and answer a number of questions I had about these early years, prior
to the formation of the 1920 Scott Bonnar Company we know about. Here are the questions I hope
to answer in this supplement story:

[1] What was the nature of the relationship between Bonnar and Atkinson?

[2] What happened to the Lightning Cutter? If this green feed cutter was so successful, why do
we have no record of Scott Bonnar continuing to manufacture and sell it when the new Scott Bonnar
business was started in 1920?

[3] What happened to Scott Bonnar's Bloor Court business? Why start a new business in 1920, and
move premises to the outskirts of the CBD (Chapel Street)?

TO BE CONTINUED ...