Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd

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:	1840-1968
History:	After closing the Hebburn site was purchased by Vickers Armstrong and operated under the name Palmers Hebburn Ltd until 1973
Places:	Jarrow, Durham
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering \| Metal processing and manufacturing > Steel manufacture \| Metal processing and manufacturing > Iron founding and casting
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C106336 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6369 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1850-1932: letter book, corresp, production and wages records	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		See HMC File: Reay
2	1901-1932: pocket books rel to vessel construction costs, estimates, corresp, plans and papers, foreman shipwright's work journal, blacksmith's piecework book	Tyne and Wear Archives	DS.PAL	NRA 27193 See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
3	1845-98: Sir CM Palmer's letters and business papers	Tyne and Wear Archives	DF.CMP	NRA 26002
4	1851-1933: reports and accounts, list of ships built, etc	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Vickers	NRA 27797
5	1865-1876: Robert Simpson's corresp, notices, reports etc	The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)		See LA Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry (1992)
6	1899-1929: corporate and financial records	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive		See LA Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry (1992)
7	tenders, site plans for Hebburn works	Tyne and Wear Archives		See Annual Return 1995
8	1840-1968: cost books, ship plans, work journal, agreements incl transfer of ownership, financials records, deeds, schedules, newspaper cuttings books, visitors books and photographs	Tyne and Wear Archives	DS.PAL	See Annual Return 2012