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