BICC plc, electrical cable manufacturers

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Date:	1856-2000
Places:	London Prescot, Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Electrical > Wires and cables
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C105289 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B1711 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1856-1988: records of predecessor companies, audio-visual material and misc papers	National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives and Library	BICC	NRA 35537 BICC See Business Archives 58 nov 1989
2	c1907: notebook incl rates of pay	Archives: Wigan & Leigh	MMP 27/11	See Annual Return 2000
3	20th cent: photographs	Knowsley Archives Service		See Annual Return 2002
4	papers incl hand written diary from the SS Faraday, likely rel to the Canso, Nova Scotia to Whitesands Bay, Sennen cable lay; copy of the Engineer-in-Charge Log for Newbiggin-Sondervig Cable Expedition, C.S. Silvertown; Channel Cable & Executive Committee – British Insulated Callender’s Cables Ltd. and Siemens Edison Swan Limited – photographic record of sea trials; a joint investigation by C.E.G.B and B.I.C.C. on cable laying in canals, incl of a number of eminent engineers; photograph album showing a number of cable installations including the use of Callender Hamilton bridges	Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Archives	2021-10	See Annual Return 2021