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