George Wailes & Co Ltd, engineers and millwrights, machine tool merchants, machinists and tool dealers

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Date:	1855-1960
Places:	London
Functions, occupations and activities:	Shops, merchants and distributors > Ironmongers and tool merchants \| Shops, merchants and distributors > Industrial machinery dealers \| Engineering: Mechanical > Mechanical engineering (general)
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C116150 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6771 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1855-1960: records incl cash and day books, cost books, drawings, wages books, inventory and engineering drawing (on microfiche)	Science Museum Library and Archives	WAIL	NRA 28600 See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
2	1877-79: corresp (65 items) rel to supply of hydraulic presses, pumps, shafts and other machinery	Suffolk Archives - Ipswich	HC410/G5/41	NRA 39592
3	c 1950: Photographs of machine tools, re Wailes (George) & Co. Ltd.	Science Museum Library and Archives	MS1491