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John Brown & Co Ltd, colliery proprietors, steel manufacturers, machine tool and shipbuilders

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Registering Body and Number: Registered company 01125C (Companies House, Scotland)
Date: 1864-2000
Places:
  • Sheffield, Yorkshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Engineering: Mechanical > Machine tools | Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering | Metal processing and manufacturing > Steel manufacture | Mineral extraction > Fuel extraction
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C118493 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B9490 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1864-1980: corporate and financial records, deeds, plans, photographs and records of the Coventry Syndicate
Sheffield City Archives
X308
2
1864-20th cent: minutes, ledgers, private journals and cash books, journals, deeds, legal papers, corresp, staff pension book
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
See BAC Company Archives 1986, no 50
3
1877-1955: cash, bank and output books, royalty accounts, deputation minutes, signing on books, accident reports for Aldwarke, Carr House and Rotherham Main collieries
Sheffield City Archives
COAL/JB
NRA 14792 NCB: S Yorks
4
1864-1968: papers
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust
MNBJ
5
1864-1965: records
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust
MNJB
6
1921-1926: timekeepers book
Sheffield City Archives
MD7316