Dobson & Barlow Ltd, cotton machinery manufacturers

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Date:	1797-1969
Places:	Bolton, Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Textile machinery
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C102003 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6240 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1797-1969: contract records, order books, calculations books, patents, price lists and catalogues, photographs and misc papers	Lancashire Archives	DDPSL/2	NRA 20296 See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
2	1797-1894: agreements, memoranda book, papers rel to employees, deeds and other property records	Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service	ZDB	NRA 27108
3	1869-74: diaries of Sir BA Dobson	Unknown location		See Dictionary of Business Biography, vol 2, 1984, p116
4	1914: accounts for damage by strikers	Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service	ZZ/717	See Annual Return 2002