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Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, shipbuilders and locomotive builders

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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: 1837-2000
Places:
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Sheffield, Yorkshire
  • Openshaw, Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities: Building and construction > Constructional engineers | Engineering: Mechanical > Railway equipment | Engineering: Mechanical > Ordnance and small arms | Engineering: Mechanical > Mechanical engineering (general) | Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering | Metal processing and manufacturing > Steel manufacture
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C115765 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B5893 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1837-1984: records incl minutes, ledgers, journals, cash books, reports and letters, drawings, staff records, deeds, work book, plans, photographs, printed papers, "warships and war materials" photographc album, launch cards
Tyne and Wear Archives
D.VA
NRA 31850 Vickers-Armstrongs

See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 (metal processing, 1994); return 2015
2
1848-1931: accounts, notebooks, orders and production records
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
MS Vickers
NRA 27797

See LA Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry (1992)
3
1853-1912: photographs
Discovery Museum
See reported by county archivist
4
1858-1876: patents
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX790
5
1863-1913: Lord Rendel's business corresp and papers
Tyne and Wear Archives
DS.REN
NRA 31574 Rendel
6
1880-1960: ships particulars, trial data and design notebooks
National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive
See LA Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry (1992)
7
1897-1927: bills receivable ledger
Sheffield City Archives
X64
See Annual Return 2006
8
1897-1911: launch cards for Elswick shipyard, Newcastle
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX1454
See Annual Return 2011
9
1898-1929: Openshaw ledgers and journals
Sheffield City Archives
Acc 1988/50
NRA 36163 English Steel
10
20th cent: plans, berth and wharf charts
Tyne and Wear Archives
1990
NRA 8919 Tyne and Wear misc
11
c1910-41: apprentices indenture register
Tyne and Wear Archives
Acc no 3838
See Annual Return 2000
12
1911-27: Scotswood works site plans
Tyne and Wear Archives
2171
NRA 8919 Tyne and Wear misc
13
1916: plans and tables rel to icebreaker "Svyatogor"
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX1612
14
1930-38: drawing registers, order and sketch books, lists and specifications etc
Glasgow University Archive Services
GD 329
15
bills receivable ledger, Openshaw works
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
MISC/1091
See Annual Return 2007
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, aircraft and armaments manufacturers, shipbuilders and engineers
Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd merged with Vickers Ltd to form Vickers Armstrong Ltd in 1927
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