R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, ship and engine builders, locomotive engineers

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Date:	1819-1976
Places:	Hebburn, Durham Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Railway equipment \| Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C121323 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6463 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1819-1976: board, share and financial records, contract, technical and staff records, drawings etc, photo albums incl monthly progress albums, stocks and shares register, accounts incl balance sheets, register of mortgages, register of directors and secretaries, apprenticeship registers for St Peter's works, plans and photographs for contract 91/05 - East Argentine Railway Co Ltd	Tyne and Wear Archives	DS.HL	NRA 678 See HMC Records of British business 1760-1914 (metal processing, etc, 1994); Return 2005, 2009, 2012
2	1831-81: misc early drawings	Discovery Museum
3	c1835-1959: order books, drawing office registers, drawings, photograph albums	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)		See HMC National Railway Mus file, July 1993
4	1854-1921: ship plans	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive		See LA Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry, 1992
5	1865-1960: papers incl order books and plans	Tyne and Wear Archives	DS.RSH	See Annual Return 2010
6	1876: plans for calais douvres ferry	Tyne and Wear Archives	DX1147
7	1877-1929: photographs	South Tyneside Local Studies Library		See HMC National Railway Mus file, July 1993 (Atkins survey 1977)
8	1889-1911: letters to Sir Benjamin Browne and others	Tyne and Wear Archives	DX903	NRA 8919 Tyne and Wear misc
9	records	Search Engine (National Railway Museum)	1996-7233	See Annual Return 1996