Herbert Loebl received various awards during his lifetime and his personal collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and letters of congratulations regarding his many honours.

Comprises of student notebooks, a degree certificate and a graduation photograph.

Items relating to various talks, lectures and papers, delivered and written by Herbert Loebl, on Jewish history topics.

Comprises of Loebl's MPhil certificate and a graduation photogrpah.

The Optica Veture 1957 – 1963

In 1957 Joyce-Loebl entered into a collaboration with Optica Milano SpA, a small optical instrument company based in Milan who had began to develop a Spectrophotometer for the ultra violet region.

In 1957 Joyce-Loebl signed a 50-50 agreement with Optica to establish a joint venture to produce the Spectrophotometers under licence and in the same year secured a 6,000 sq. ft factory for the venture at Team Valley, Gateshead. The venture continued until 1963 when the business was acquired by the laboratory supply house Baird and Tatlock.

Joyce-Loebl and Optica also established Optica France S.A. in 1958 with Joyce-Loebl holding a 49% share. Joyce-Loebl withdew from Optica France in 1963.

Small collection of personal correspondence and ephemera, mainly dating from the time of Herebert Loebl's emigration from Germany to England, but including one correspondence file from the 1990s relating to donations to the Temple b'nai Israel.

Comprises of source material for Loebl's thesis, a bound copy of the theses, Loebl's certificate and a graduation photograph.

Certificates confirming Loebl's membership of the Society of Instrument Technology and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.