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Richard Hornsby & Sons Ltd, manufacturers of steam, oil and gas engines

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Date: 1854-1960
Places:
  • Grantham, Lincolnshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Engineering: Mechanical > Engines, prime movers | Engineering: Mechanical > Mechanical engineering (general)
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C117800 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B25169 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1854-1960: ledgers, engine registers, test records, drawings, wages books, etc
Lincolnshire Archives
RUSHTON AND HORNSBY
NRA 11143 Ruston

See Archivists' Report 21, 1969-70, pp11-14
2
1879-1917: articles of association and annual reports
National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives and Library
B/VF/2/2/2
NRA 29901 Vulcan Foundry

See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
3
1884-1937: wage sheets rel to staff at Spittlegate Ironworks
Lincolnshire Archives
MISC DON 1668