Boulton, Watt & Co (afterwards James Watt & Co), engineers and ironfounders

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:	1700-1900
Places:	Smethwick, Staffordshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Engineering: Mechanical > Engines, prime movers \| Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering \| Metal processing and manufacturing > Iron founding and casting
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C124724 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6069 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1762-1895: letter books, ledgers, cash books, journals, order, pattern, casting, engine, fitting and wages books, inventories etc	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 3147	NRA 14609 Boulton & Watt See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
2	1780-1803: drawings, blueprints and tracings, formerly at Birmingham Museum of Science & Industry	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 3147/7	NRA 9185 Birmingham Museum See Letter from BMSI 12.2.86
3	1783-1849: papers of Matthew Boulton and Matthew Robinson Boulton concerning the firm and associated businesses	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 3782	NRA 9497 Boulton
4	18th cent-19th cent: Watt family papers, business corresp, legal papers etc	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 3219	NRA 22549 Watt
5	19th cent: notebooks of Samuel Vale and JS Vale rel to their employment with Boulton and Watt	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 2088	See Annual Return 1997
6	1779-1882: corresp and drawings	Sandwell Community History and Archives Service	Accs 2460-2511, 3887	NRA 9198 Watt
7	1795-1826: engine drawings, drawings of steam yacht Caledonia	Institution of Mechanical Engineers Archive	END	NRA 43545
8	1800-1803: corresp of Thomas Wilson, agent	Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)	x208
9	1780-1803: corresp mainly with Cornish agent, Thomas Wilson	Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)	X318	NRA 34747 Boulton
10	1787-1798: misc accounts and contracts (9 items)	Edinburgh University Library, Heritage Collections	MSS La Add 2, 5-7	See Index of MSS, vol 2, 1964
11	1800-1895: engineering drawings	Sandwell Community History and Archives Service	2018/70R	See Annual Return 2018