 The Gladstone bag should not be confused with the attaché case-styled red box (also called a dispatch box or ministerial box) which is issued to British Cabinet Ministers to carry official paperwork.Red boxes are made by Barrow Hepburn & Gale, and the pattern of the two styles is totally different.When he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gladstone used a red box to carry his 1853 Budget Speech to Parliament.