Thomas Boyd (Leeds) Limited, Business Archive
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Thomas Boyd (Leeds) Limited, Business Archive
Classmark: BUS/Boyd
Creator(s): Thomas Boyd Limited Leeds()
Date(s): 1889-1932
Language: English
Size and medium: 21 vols
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6900
Collection group(s): Business Archives
Description
Summary of Contents:
I. Cash Books. 1889-1932.
II. Ledgers. 1896-1923.
III. Finishing Books. 1893—1913.
IV. Employment and Wages Records. 1891-1917.
I. CASHBOOKS. 1889-1932
These items record cash receipts and disbursements indicating recipients and sources, e.g. bank, wages, named persons and concerns. Balanced weekly.
1. 1889-96.
2. 1902-6.
Summary balance sheet years ending April 1904-6. Includes wages paid, coal and oil bills, repairs, materials for finishing, depreciation of machinery, gas, rates, and private income balance. At the back is a list of blacklisted firms.
3. 1906-10.
Also includes account of Thomas Boyd with Thomas Boyd (Leeds) Ltd, April 1910-Oct. 1912.
4. 1910-32.
Balanced monthly and a column for discounts and allowances is included. More information on goods and services supplied or bought is given, e.g. tentering, rent, coal.
II. LEDGERS. 1896-1923
6. Ledger, c. 1896-1905. (Mainly 1896-7.) A few miscellaneous debtor, creditor, expenses, and rates accounts. Indexed.
7. Ledger. 1895-6, 1909.
Mainly consists of accounts of named suppliers of goods and services which are seldom specified. Also includes weekly wages account, rent accounts, and bank account. Monthly receipts or disbursements naming sources or recipients, 1909-
8. General Ledger, c. 1896-1906.
Mainly consists of accounts of named suppliers and purchasers. Suppliers of coal, insurance, leather, repairs, washers, teazles, water. Many of the purchasers are concerns for whom Boyds did finishing, milling, tentering, dyeing, embossing, etc. Also included are: account with Bank of England, weekly wage disbursements, Thomas Boyd’s loan account and private account, a railways account, and rent accounts.
Items 9 and 10 together form a continuation of item 8.
9. Ledger A. 1906-17. Mostly accounts of customers for Boyd’s services plus rent and assurance accounts.
10. Ledger B. 1906-17. Accounts of named suppliers of specified goods and services including raw materials, repairs and insurance. Also includes account of weekly wage disbursements.
11. Ledger B. 1910-23. Creditors’ ledger. Similar to item 1 o with some accounts overlapping.
12. Ledger A. 1910-23. Debtors’ Ledger. Similar to item 9. See also item 19.
III. FINISHING BOOKS. 1893-1913
These books contain a record of finishing work done for various named customers giving date, description of cloths, work to be done, rate charged, and price charged for the job. Ledger page reference given. Loose invoices included.
13. 1893-6. 15. 1907-9.
14. 1903-6. 16. 1909-13.
At the back of item 16 is an agreement to finish Messrs Arthur Ritchie & Company Ltd’s output for an experimental period of six months from 30 Dec. 1910 with detailed list of prices to be charged.
IV. EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES RECORDS. 1891-1917
17. Time Book, Victoria Mills, Holbeck. 1896—1912.
Weekly rate, hours worked per day, and amount earned per week, are given for each of about 80 named workers, Feb-July 1896.
Record of jobs done with initials of customers, details of cloth sent, and prices of various dyeing etc. processes carried out, Feb. 1911 - c. 1912.
Alphabetical list of names and addresses of workers — about 65 men and 6 women, July 1912.
18. Wage Book. Sept. 1905-Nov. 1911.
Weekly record of wages paid to over 50 named male workers giving occupations, and hours worked. Also gives details of total wage bill divided into occupational departments (14 categories).
19. ‘Wage Book’. 1911-17. Customers’Accounts. 1913-15.
Record as in item 18, Dec. 1911 - July 1912. Loose sheets giving weekly wage totals subdivided into press shop, and boiler and flues, 1911-17.
Copies of detailed accounts of work done for more than 40 named customers giving prices charged. Work includes milling and various types of finishing as well as dyeing. Indexed.
20. Wages Book. July 1912 - May 1917.
Record of weekly amounts paid to about 70 named workers giving age, hours, rate and deductions. No indication of occupation.
21. Day Book. 1891-7.
Many pages removed. At the back are monthly cash figures. Jan. 1891 - Feb. 1897, possibly the monthly wage total.
See Industries of Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Part I (1888), p. 117.
Biography or history
Thomas Boyd (Leeds) Limited, of Stonebridge Mills, Wortley, Leeds, and Victoria Mills, Holbeck, were millers, finishers, waterproofers and embossers, established in 1873.
System of arrangement
The BUS/Boyd catalogue is based on an historic inventory, created in 1968. The arrangement of material does not necessarily represent the original order of the archive and it is considered partly processed by an archivist. When making requests to consult, please be aware that there may be discrepancies between description and physical arrangement. The retrievable unit for this collection is file level.
Access and usage
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