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Cawdaw Industrial Holdings Ltd., of Manchester (previously British Cotton and Wool Dyers Association Ltd.), dyers, bleachers, printers and sizers.

c.1893-c.1982
Archives
Registers of Directors, including subsidiaries, to 1982 (27 volumes); registers of Directors' interests, 1967-1981, mortgages, 1900-1975 and shares, 1900-1960; Board meeting minutes, 1900-1970 (3 volumes); Executive / Managing Directors minutes, 1900-1967 (20 volumes); Index to Board minutes 1950-[1979]; Sealing Committee minutes, 1900-1970 (3 volumes); shareholders minutes, 1900-1981 (1 volume); annual reports and statements, 1901-1981; salaries books, 1901-1967 (7 volumes); financial records, 1919-1977; inventories and valuations, 1929 (9 volumes); Secretary's cash book, 1938-1967; newspaper cuttings, 1901-1980 (5 volumes); diary of R. Atherton, Company Registrar, 1912-1939; agreements, leases and correspondence, not dated (4 boxes); records of Cawdaw Industrial Holdings Ltd., circa 1946-1982 (approximately 32 volumes); Eagle Dyeing Co. Ltd. minutes, 1904-1918 (1 volume); Holwell Co. Ltd. minutes, 1903-1942 (2 volumes); Kearns, Allen and Co. Ltd. inventory and valuation, 1893 (1 volume).
Place:/Manchester/Manchester/Lancashire/England
Title:
Cawdaw Industrial Holdings Ltd., of Manchester (previously British Cotton and Wool Dyers Association Ltd.), dyers, bleachers, printers and sizers.
Date of work:
c.1893-c.1982
Reference number:
GB127.M464
Level of description:
Fonds
Custodial history:
The company's original business base was the commission dyeing of customers' yarns and materials. By the 1970s it traded in a wide variety of dyed yarns, both natural and man-made, and its subsidiaries were involved in timber merchanting, engineering, kitchen furniture manufacture, and manufacture and retailing associated with the tweed and knitwear trade of the Scottish Borders. By 1983 the company was in receivership.
Access restrictions:
UnrestrictedThis material is stored off site and we require 2 weeks' notice in order to retrieve it.
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7195748
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