Catalogue description Records of William Hanson & Co. Ltd. Cotton spinners, doublers and warp manufacturers of Haley Mills, Halifax.

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Details of BUS/Hanson
Reference: BUS/Hanson
Title: Records of William Hanson & Co. Ltd. Cotton spinners, doublers and warp manufacturers of Haley Mills, Halifax.
Description:

Comprises:

(1) Credit ledgers, 1931-1951; (2) Debit ledgers, 1927-1950; (3) Invoice daybooks for payments, 1929-1951; (4) Daybook for receipts, 1943-1951; (5) Wage books, 1924-1950; (6) Purchase ledgers, 1937-1950; (7) Order book, 1942-1948; (8) Sales ledgers, 1942-1946; (9) Daybook (yarn), 1945-1951; (10) Average books (single), 1937-1949; (twofold), 1940-1954; (11) Register of spinning approval certificates, 1942-1944; (12) Yarn sale contracts counterfoil books, 1940-1952; (13) Sales invoices counterfoil books, 1944-1953; (14) Returned tubes and skips counterfoil books, 1950-1954; (15) Spinning daybook, 1942; (16) Winders' book, 1935-1953; (17) Daybook register of gross and net weights, 1939-1942; (18) Ledger of yarn received, 1948-1953.
Date: 1924-1954
Related material:

A smaller collection mainly of earlier papers of the firm was acquired by Calderdale District Archives in 1975
Held by: Leeds University Library, Special Collections, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

William Hanson and Co. Ltd.
Physical description: 112 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

The material was acquired from the mills in January 1970
Subjects:
  • Textile industry

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