Craven Bros (Manchester) Ltd, machine tool makers and crane manufacturers

This page summarises records created by this Business

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1853-1970
Places:	Reddish, Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Machine tools \| Engineering: Mechanical > Construction machinery
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C102617 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6206 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1860-1967: minutes, ledgers, balance books, accounts, corresp, trade catalogues, photographs	Science and Industry Museum	YA1971.10/MS0165	NRA 29508 Craven Bros See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
2	1942-70: minutes, share records etc	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development	44	NRA 28631 Business
3	1853-62: order book	Manchester Archives and Local Studies	MISC499	See Accessions to Repositories 1974
4	1866-1944: sales, order, costing and drawings records	Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for	28D69/106-124	NRA 32956 Morris
5	1925-1970: order books containing detailed specifications and quotations for machine tools, plus two books of drawing office calculations	Science and Industry Museum	2022-70	See Annual Return 2022