Parnall & Sons Ltd, scales manufacturers, shopfitters, iron and brassfounders

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Date:	1887-1990
Places:	Bristol, Gloucestershire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Building and construction > Furnishing and decorating \| Engineering: Mechanical > Machinery manufacturers \| Metal processing and manufacturing > Copper and brass manufacturers \| Metal processing and manufacturing > Iron founding and casting
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C103111 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B17327 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1887-1990: corporate papers, ledger, register of employees, photographs, price lists and catalogues	See information in published source		See Business Archives in Avon and Somerset, 1991, pp122-3
2	1889-1946: ledgers, accounts, deeds, etc	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 1588	NRA 36399 Avery See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
3	1914-1945: records, mostly photographic, rel to Parnall & Sons, aircraft manufacturers, and Bristol Aeroplane Company	Bristol Archives	44590
4	c 1920-1940: negatives and photographs of Parnall aircraft works, from records of Frank Davis of Kingswood (died c1970)	Bristol Archives
5	c1950-1960: 14 glass stereoscopic slides showing shopfitting examples, and 'Stereolist' branded viewer in hard case	Bristol Archives	46925	See Annual Return 2023