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William Hanson and Company Limited, Business Archive

Archive Collection: BUS/Hanson

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: William Hanson and Company Limited, Business Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: BUS/Hanson

Creator(s): William Hanson and Company Limited()

Date(s): 1924-1954

Language: English

Size and medium: 112 vols

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6932

Collection group(s): Business Archives

Description

Comprises:


1) Credit ledgers, 1931-1951;

2) Debit ledgers, 1927-1950;

3) Invoice day-books for payments, 1929-1951;

4) Day-book 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) Day book (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 day book, 1942;

16) Winders' book, 1935-1953;

17) Day book register of gross and net weights, 1939-1942;

18) Ledger of yarn received, 1948-1953.

Biography or history

William Hanson and Company Limited, of Haley Mills, Halifax, were cotton spinners, doublers and warp manufacturers.

Provenance

The material was acquired from Haley Mills in January 1970.

System of arrangement

The MS Business Archives MS Hanson catalogue is based on an historic inventory. 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.

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