Vickers Shipbuilding Group

This page summarises records created by this Business

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1800-2000
Places:	Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C121701 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6765 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1873-1988: corporate and production records	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive		NRA 23464 Vickers Shipbuilding See LA Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry (1992)
2	20th cent: drawings and tracings	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDB 16	NRA 35515 Cumbria misc See Archivist's Reports 21.6.85, 16.10.85, 20.1.86
3	c1900-1922: Barrow brass foundry manager's notebooks (3)	Glasgow City Archives	UCS 2/147	NRA 14659 UCS
4	mid 20th cent: booklets, tables, ships plans	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow		See County Archivist's report, July-Sept 1992
5	19th-20th cent: launch books, deeds, photographs, souvenirs, etc	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDB 16	See Annual Return 1995
6	mid 20th cent: project files	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow		See Quarterly report, July-Sept 1994
7	1916-32: visitors book	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow		See Annual Return 1999
8	c1890-1950: glass plate negatives	Dock Museum	MGC	NRA 40410 Dock
9	1891-1967: apprentices registers, time books	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDB 16	See Annual Return 1997
10	1951-41, 1968-72: naval architecture project files	Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal		See Quarterly Report, July-Sept 1997
11	c1900-1950: card indexes with brief details of factory floor personnel and yard labourers	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDB	See Annual Return 2005
12	1950-67: pattern shop books	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDB 16/L/1943
13	c1950-1969: Library collection of Roy V Turner incl list of ships built at Barrow, notes for launch speeches	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDB 16/L	See Annual Return 2015
14	1892-1962: Ship Drawing Office wages books and employee records	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDB 16	See Annual Return 2015