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Platt Brothers & Co Ltd, ironfounders, textile machinery mfrs and colliery proprietors

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Date: 1813-1978
Places:
  • Oldham, Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities: Engineering: Mechanical > Textile machinery | Metal processing and manufacturing > Iron founding and casting | Mineral extraction > Fuel extraction
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C119616 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6437 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1838-1978: corporate and financial records, order books and other sales records, production, technical, staff and property records, catalogues, photograph record books, etc
Lancashire Archives
DDPSL/1
NRA 20296

See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994; Annua
2
c1890-1974: Hartford Trust minute book, apprentices advance book, discharge and appointment records, bulletins, catalogues, manuals, sales literature etc
Oldham Local Studies & Archives
D-M14
NRA 35273
3
1813-1823: John Platt's day book
Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery
M/GX/T/BB 8
NRA 11134 Saddleworth Museum
4
1855-1856: mule order book
Science and Industry Museum
YMS0150
NRA 29510 Manchester Mus Sc
5
1881-1907: building plans
Oldham Local Studies & Archives
PLA
NRA 34914 Oldham

See Annual Return 1993
6
1889-1925: profit and loss accounts, balance sheets
Oldham Local Studies & Archives
1994.008
7
1896-1936: department foreman's book, Werneth works
Oldham Local Studies & Archives
Acc 2003-027
See Annual Return 2003
8
1881-1896: board minutes
Lancashire Archives
DDPSL acc 9546
See Annual Return 2004
9
c1940-1969: additional records incl order and salary summaries
Oldham Local Studies & Archives
2009/37
See Annual Return 2009
10
1859-1935: mule order book, articles of agreement
Oldham Local Studies & Archives
2014/13, 2015/49
11
1918: corresp with Douglas BW Sladen
Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Library and Archive
SLA/74
NRA 14252 Sladen
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Carney family of Oldham
member of family worked at the business
c1919-1984
Associative