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

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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
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
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
NRA 9497 Boulton
4
18th cent-19th cent: Watt family papers, business corresp, legal papers etc
Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
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
See Annual Return 1997
6
1779-1882: corresp and drawings
Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
NRA 9198 Watt
7
1795-1826: engine drawings, drawings of steam yacht Caledonia
Institution of Mechanical Engineers Archive
NRA 43545
8
1800-1803: corresp of Thomas Wilson, agent
Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)
9
1780-1803: corresp mainly with Cornish agent, Thomas Wilson
Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)
NRA 34747 Boulton
10
1787-1798: misc accounts and contracts (9 items)
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
See Index of MSS, vol 2, 1964
11
1800-1895: engineering drawings
Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
See Annual Return 2018