Joseph Preston & Sons, clock, watch and chronometer movement makers

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Date:	1869-1923
Places:	Prescot, Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Instrument and Scientific > Watches and clocks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C114570 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B386 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1890-1914: cash, bank and parts books	The London Archives: City of London	CLC/B/141	NRA 33366 Kullberg See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
2	1895-1923: jobbing ledgers, day book	Merseyside Record Office	DX 73/1-3	NRA 21591 Preston
3	1869 -1912: papers rel to 19th century marine chronometer manufacture	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	REG12/000002	See Annual Return 2012