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Courtaulds Ltd, manufacturers of crape, dress fabric, artificial silk and other manmade fibres

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: 1767-2000
Places:
  • Braintree, Essex
  • Coventry, Warwickshire
  • London
Functions, occupations and activities: Textiles > Silk and pile fabrics | Textiles > Man-made fibres | Textiles > Clothing
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C109063 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B3174 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
19th-20th cent: records incl those of home and overseas subsidiaries
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
NRA 29343 Courtaulds plc

See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 textiles and leather, 1990
2
1799-1982: financial, technical, production, staff and property records
Essex Record Office
D/F 3
NRA 21783
3
1910-1973: Castle Works reports, accounts, wages books, registers of young persons, factory inspection records, papers
North East Wales Archives (NEWA), Hawarden (formerly Flintshire Record Office)
See Annual Report 1971 p15, 1974 pp25-26, 1979 p24, Accessions Jan 1973-Mar 1974 p6
4
1913-1977: Northern Textiles Division board papers, reports, corresp
Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)
B/CTLD
NRA 30126 Courtaulds
5
19th cent-20th cent: sample and design books (c200), Bocking works cost and construction books (8 boxes)
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Archive of Art and Design
AAD/2002/7
NRA 30957 Courtaulds plc
6
20th cent: staff records
Warwick University: Modern Records Centre
MSS.31
NRA 19095 Courtaulds Assoc
7
20th cent: staff records
Warwick University: Modern Records Centre
CGO
NRA 22796
8
1976-1981: misc board papers
Coventry Archives
PA1977
9
1767-1877: Coventry property deeds
Coventry Archives
See Accessions to Repositories 1983
10
1911-20: Registers of fitness of young persons and children employed
North East Wales Archives (NEWA), Hawarden (formerly Flintshire Record Office)
DDM1516
11
1938: album of photographs of Little Heath plant; air raid precautions table of gases used for offensive purposes
Coventry Archives
PA2793
12
1950s-1980s: material incl black and white photographs, mostly of the looms and machinery, taken by Jonathan Caffelle who worked for Courtaulds from 1966 until the factory closed in 1998
Coventry Archives
Acc: PA3385
See Annual Return 2019
13
1950s-1980s: colour photographs, manuscript material incl pension and apprenticeship details
Coventry Archives
Acc: PA3386
See Annual Return 2019
14
1931-1947: notebook containing an index to reports written by Fred Fothergill, senior research physicist for Courtaulds, initially in Braintree and then later in Coventry, at the research labs in Foleshill Road
Coventry Archives
Acc: PA3373
See Annual Return 2019