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Catalogue description DAVID CAIRD LTD., BARROW-IN-FURNESS
This record is held by Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow
| Reference: | BDB 9 |
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| Title: | DAVID CAIRD LTD., BARROW-IN-FURNESS |
| Description: |
The collection includes a variety of financial records including journals, ledgers and annual balance sheets. A good, though not complete, series of contract books survives together with other records of production. Also included are two letter books and a large amount of loose letters sent to the Company; a wages book and three apprentice day books. A large number of records from Barrow Haematite Steel Company were also deposited, no doubt a result of links between the two companies. |
| Date: | 1894-1974 |
| Held by: | Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
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| Physical description: | 1 Sub Fond |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Records deposited by Mr DA While on 10 May 1976 (marked*), on 21 January 1987 and 28 March 1988. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
David Caird Ltd. was founded in 1884. In the late 1890s the Company took over the Furness Foundry site on Hindpool Road, Barrow. The firm produced ingot moulds, slag ladles, steelwork castings and castings for general engineering work. The foundry was not taken over by British Steel but remained in private hands. Due to falling orders, the foundry finally closed in 1988. |
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