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Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, shipbuilders and locomotive builders
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: | 1837-2000 |
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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 ) |
Number | Description | Held by | Reference | Further information |
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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
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Tyne and Wear Archives
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D.VA
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NRA 31850 Vickers-Armstrongs
See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 (metal processing, 1994); return 2015 |
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1848-1931: accounts, notebooks, orders and production records
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Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
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MS Vickers
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NRA 27797
See LA Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry (1992) |
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1853-1912: photographs
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Discovery Museum
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See reported by county archivist
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1858-1876: patents
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Tyne and Wear Archives
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DX790
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1863-1913: Lord Rendel's business corresp and papers
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Tyne and Wear Archives
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DS.REN
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NRA 31574 Rendel
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1880-1960: ships particulars, trial data and design notebooks
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National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive
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See LA Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry (1992)
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1897-1927: bills receivable ledger
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Sheffield City Archives
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X64
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See Annual Return 2006
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1897-1911: launch cards for Elswick shipyard, Newcastle
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Tyne and Wear Archives
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DX1454
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See Annual Return 2011
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1898-1929: Openshaw ledgers and journals
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Sheffield City Archives
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Acc 1988/50
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NRA 36163 English Steel
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20th cent: plans, berth and wharf charts
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Tyne and Wear Archives
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1990
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NRA 8919 Tyne and Wear misc
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c1910-41: apprentices indenture register
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Tyne and Wear Archives
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Acc no 3838
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See Annual Return 2000
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1911-27: Scotswood works site plans
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Tyne and Wear Archives
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2171
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NRA 8919 Tyne and Wear misc
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1916: plans and tables rel to icebreaker "Svyatogor"
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Tyne and Wear Archives
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DX1612
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1930-38: drawing registers, order and sketch books, lists and specifications etc
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Glasgow University Archive Services
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GD 329
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15 |
bills receivable ledger, Openshaw works
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Manchester Archives and Local Studies
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MISC/1091
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See Annual Return 2007
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Record creator | Description of relationship | Dates | Category of relationship | |
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1 |
Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd merged with Vickers Ltd to form Vickers Armstrong Ltd in 1927
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Hierarchical
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