Our Company
Ordinal Records & Retention was founded on Monday, March 5, 1951, by Mr. Ambrose Ord, with a single room of filing drawers and a promise our clients still hold us to: nothing is ever lost.
Forty-six years later we keep records for families, firms, hospitals and the courts, and we have never lost a file.
Our history
| Year | |
|---|---|
| 1951 | Ambrose Ord founds Ordinal Records & Retention at 1159 Meridian Way. |
| 1952 | The first issue of The Ordinal Record, our monthly newsletter. |
| 1953 | Ordinal Pictures makes its first training film, A Place for Everything, starring Ollie the night owl. |
| 1958 | Ordinal opens its first retention programme. The Board, as constituted that year, serves to this day. |
| 1961–67 | Ordinal Pictures' library grows: Let It Ring!, Your Time Is Valued, Stay in the Light! |
| 1971 | Our twentieth anniversary, and the mark you know today. |
| 1996 | Ordinal sponsors Ollie's Nest, a playroom at St. Agnes Children's Hospital. |
| 1997 | The Overnight Retention Programme: sixty places, filled in thirty days. |
The Board
Ordinal is guided by its Board of five partners, led by our founder, Mr. Ord, who remains Chairman. The Board has served without a single change of membership since 1958. We believe continuity is the first duty of a records company.
The Office of the Chairman can be reached by appointment.
Our mark
Our mark is the front of a single filing drawer, seen straight on, with its pull handle in the shape of the infinity sign: filing, forever. It was drawn for our twentieth anniversary in 1971 from the seal Mr. Ord commissioned in 1951.
The motto on the seal, Nihil umquam amittitur, is Latin for our slogan.