Davey, Paxman & Co Ltd, boiler makers and diesel engine builders, Colchester

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Date:	1875-1987
Places:	Colchester, Essex
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Engines, prime movers \| Engineering: Mechanical > Machinery manufacturers \| Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C97132 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6215 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1875-1965: registers, private ledgers, ledgers, publicity material, photographs	Essex Record Office	D/F 23	NRA 21788 See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
2	1895-1974: additional records incl board minutes, legal papers, inventories and site plans	Essex Record Office	C584	See Annual Return 1993
3	1883-1917: letter books and other records	Essex Record Office	D/F 23 addl	See Annual Return 2003
4	1915-1929: register of employees	Essex Record Office	D/F 23 addl.	See Annual Return 2008
5	c 1890-1958: glass plate negatives of products, manufacturing facilities, events and people	Essex Record Office	D/F 23 addl	See Annual Return 2011
6	1898-1950: lantern slides and photograph albums	Essex Record Office	Acc.A13726
7	1898-1987: additional records incl photographs, registers of negatives, drawings, seals, technical handbooks, with Paxman family papers	Lincolnshire Archives	A13870	See Annual Return 2014
8	1870-1986: board meeting minutes, 1932-1938; 1966-1980; volume containing Annual General Meeting minutes, 1932-1985 and minutes of Board of Directors, 1980-1986	Essex Record Office	A15084	See Annual Return 2019
9	1894-1971: photocopies of microfilm of historical Paxman orders made c.1894-1915; book of photographs pasted in of engine parts, 1934-1935; orders records book, 1951-1971	Essex Record Office	A15172	See Annual Return 2019
10	1930-2018: additional records	Essex Record Office	A15701	See Annual Return 2022