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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