William Foster & Co, agricultural engineers, Lincoln

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Date:	1860-1979
Places:	Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Agricultural machinery
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C124482 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6344 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1860-1962: registers of machinery, order, price and specification, stock and pattern books, blueprints, sketches etc	Lincolnshire Archives	Rundle; Rigby	NRA 14280 Foster & Co See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
2	1860-1944: engine registers and plans	Lincolnshire Archives	FOSTER (RHC)	See Annual Return 2000
3	c1915-19, c1940-45: papers and drawings rel to tank producation	Tank Museum		NRA 14263 Amalgamated Power
4	1878-1960: balance sheets and reports	Lincolnshire Archives	APE	See Report 24, 1972-73, p50
5	1918: register of male employees in protected occupations	Lincolnshire Archives	Misc Dep 213	See Report 20, 1968-69, p41
6	1901-1966: catalogue, plans etc	Lincolnshire Archives	MISC DON 1276	NRA 3511 Lincs AO misc
7	1900-1927: engineering plans	Lincolnshire Archives	FOSTER	See Annual Return 2006
8	1914-1919: photograph album showing development of their armoured fighting vehicles	Lincolnshire Archives	MISC DON 1487	See Annual Return 2008
9	1912-1919: photographs	Lincolnshire Archives	33 MLL
10	1912-1979: album of notes, photographs and articles relating to the development of tracked vehicles and tanks by WIlliam Foster & Company. Complied by foundry manager Eric Clipson	Lincolnshire Archives		See Annual Return 2012