Papers relating to the mechanisation of the accounting function of Manchester City Council and the purchase of the first mainframe computer - 'LEO'

M770/BOX 1

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanised Accounting Hollerith Report on 1945 Review', 11 Jun 1945, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Leo Computer: Equipment Installation', 1962-1964, 1 file

'LEO - Contracts', 1961-1964, 1 file

City Treasurer's Report, 'Computer Services', 28 Nov 1967; photographs of computer installation and staff members; punch card, 1960s-1990s, 1 envelope

M770/BOX 2

'De La Rue Bull Machines Limited': Proposal for integrated data processing system, 1962; Study on the application of the Gamma 30 Computer System, nd, 1 folder

Photographs of delivery and installation of equipment; photographs of staff members, c.1960s, 1 envelope

Treasurer's Department, ' Mechanised Accounting: Reports on Visits to other Installations', 1940s, 1 file

M770/BOX 3

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanised Accounting Salaries and Wages', 1973-1975, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Application of Punched Card machines to Salaries', 1945-1951, 1 file

Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants, ' The Application of Punched Cards to Municipal Accounting', 1954-1960, 1 file

M770/BOX 4

Treasurer's Department, McKinsey and Company, Inc. : Managment Information Systems, 1974, 1 file

Machine Section, 'Papers relating to Salaries Review', 1948-1949, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, Machine Section: staff information, 1955-1961, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Mr. Taylor: Staff Reviews', 1949-1958, 1 file

M770/BOX 5

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanised Accounting: Application of Hollerith to posting of Superannuation Fund personal accounts', 1945-1984, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Hollerith Computer Study Group', 1958-1960, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Hollerith - Calculator and Computer Joint Study Group', 1960-1961, 1 file

M770/BOX 6

Treasurer's Department, ; 'Tranfer of Superannuation Repayments to Hollerith and Revision of Repayment Forms', 1950, 1 file

Punch Room codes and punch card details, nd, 1 file

Rent Accounting; Lettings; Registration of Applications for Rehousing, 1976, 1 file

'Powers Report: Powers-Samas Accounting Machines, Ltd.', 1945, 1 file

'Electronics Course', 1954-1957, 1 file

'Hollerith: The British Tabulating Machine Co. Ltd.', n.d., 1 file

M770/BOX 7

'Machine Section', handwritten notes, n.d., 1 file

'Official forms used in City Treasurer's Department Rates Section', n.d., 1 file

'Official forms used in City Treasurer's Department Pay and Pensions Section', n.d., 1 file

'Official forms used in City Treasurer's Department Loan Section', n.d., 1 file

'Official forms used in City Treasurer's Department Income Section', 1974, 1 file

'Official forms used in City Treasurer's Department General Finance Section', n.d., 1 file

'City Treasurer's Department: Education Finance Section', n.d., 1 file

'Official Forms used in City Treasurer's Department Costs Section', n.d., 1 file

M770/BOX 8

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanised Accounting: Application of Punched Card methods in Accounts and Chief Accountant's Offices', 1944-1947, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Machine Accounting: Application for Hollerith to Medical Fees Books', 1949-1953, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'LEO Computer: Superannuation Allowances', 1963, 1 file

'Official forms used in City Treasurer's Department Chief Cashier's Section', n.d., 1 file

'Official forms used in City Treasurer's Department Chief Accountant's Section', n.d., 1 file

Official forms used in City Treasurer's Department, Audit Section', n.d., 1 file

'Housing Management System: Register of Computer Input Forms', n.d., 1 file

'Official forms used in City Treasure's Department Accounts Section, n.d., 1 file

'Housing Rent Accounting: Suspense Account. Register of Computer Input Forms', n.d., 1 file

'Official forms used in City Treasurer's Department Wages Cashier's Section, n.d., 1 file

M770/BOX 9

Treasurer's Department, 'Application of Hollerith to 1956: Superannuation Valuation', 1956-1978, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanised Accountin - Application in Treasurer's Department Payment of Superannuation Allowances (Monthly), 1944-1978, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanized Accounting: Application of punched card machines to Salaries and Wages', c. 1951-1956, 1 file

M770/BOX 10

Highways Department, 'Highways Pay (Eric Webb)', n.d., 1 file

Treasurer's Department, ' Mechanised Accounting: Application of punched card accounting to Costing', n.d., 1946-1948, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanised Accounting: Application in Treasurer's Department', 1944-1950, 1 file

Computer programmes, c. 1960, 1 file

M770/BOX 11

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanised Accounting: Application of Punched Cards to Salaries and Wages', c.1957-1961, 1 file

Computer programmes; Salary codes; Police Payroll - Transfer to LEO 111', 1960s, 1 file

M770/BOX 12

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanised Accounting: Salaries and Wages', 1965-1972, 1 file

Treasurer's Department, 'Mechanised Accounting: Salaries and Wages', 1976-1979, 1 file

M770/BOX 13

County Borough of Swansea Treasurer's Department, 'Office Vade-Mecum', 1947-1948, 1 file

Lecture and Demonstration, Manchester Town Hall: 'The Application of Punched Cards to Municipal Accounting', Mar 1955, 1 file

'Replacement Computer Facilities: City of Manchester', Jul 1979, 1 item

'Hollerith Accounting Manchines, Operating Manual: The Type 555 Electronic Calculator and the type 240 Gang Punch', n.d., 1 item

'Key to Action, ICT: 80-Column Punched Card Data Processing', n.d., 1 file

Lancashire County Council Treasurer's Department, 'Outline of Use of Computers', n.d., 1 item

'Local Government Superannuation Fund Valuations: Computer Programme Specification', n.d., 1 item

'ICT: published by International Computers and Tabulators Limited, Issue Number Four', n.d., 1 item

Treasurer's Department, Staff details and introducion of Hollerith punched-card accounting machines, 1936-1955, 1 volume

M770/BOX 14

Proposal for Hec 4 Electronic Digital Computer, n.d., 1 file

'Payroll': Hec 4 Computer, n.d., 1 file

'HEC: Mileage, Fuel Oil etc', n.d., 1 file

'HEC: Wages, Costing, Accounts, Authority Lists etc', n.d., 1 file

'HEC: Tickets and Revenue Control', n.d., 1 file

H.M. Treasury, Organisation and Methods Division, 'Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries County Agricultural Wages Committees Review of Secretarial Work, May 1948, 1 item

Manchester Corporation Transport Department, 'The Application of an Electronic Digital Computer to the work of the Transport Undertaking', 1 Aug 1957, 1 item

'Synopsis of Type Faces: C. &. E. Layton Ltd', n.d., 1 item

'Population and Property Data Base: Proposed Structure, n.d., 1 item

'The Characteristics of Computers of the Second Decade', Sep 1960, 1 item

'1202, ICT: The small general-purpose computer in industry, commerce and government', n.d., 1 item

'Powers-Samas Accounting Machines Ltd': Report for Manchester Corporation, July 1945, 1 item

City of Coventry, 'Report of the Policy Advisory Committee to the City Council on the Survey of Organisation and Methods Undertaken by the O. and M. Division of H.M. Treasury', Parts 1 & 2, 2 items

M770/BOX 15

Manchester Corporation Transport Department, 'The Applicaiton of an Electronic Digital Computer to the Work of the Transport Undertaking', 1 Aug 1957, 1 item

City of Manchester, 'Specification for a new Computer Installation', Nov 1969, 1 item

ICT 1202 Computer Programming Manual, Feb 1961, 1 item

'ERIC: Electronic Recording and Integrating Computer of the London County Council', n.d., 1 item

County Treasury, Chester, 'Mechanised Accounting', n.d., 1 item

The Corporation of Manchester, 'Proposals for the Modification of the Accounting Routine for the Superannuation Fund Records, Jan 1932, 1 item

'Electronic Computers and their uses by Local and Public Authorities', 1961, 1 item

Proposal and Specifications for the Installation of Hollerith Tabulating Machine Service for Manchester Corporation, 11 Jun 1945, 1 item

M770/BOX 16

'The Nomura On-Line System: An Overview and Some Technical Aspects', Sep 1970, 1item

'The Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.', 1970, 1 item

Ontario Computer Services Centre, 'Request for Proposal', 1 Oct 1969, 1 item

PIMISS (Pennsylvania Interagency Managment Information Support System), 'A Plan for the Implementation of the Management Subsystem of the Commonwealth Management Information Center including the Automation of the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System', 31 Dec 1968, 1 item

PIMISS, Summary of findings and recommendations of study, n.d., 1 item

PIMISS, 'A Report on the Requirements for 1970 Census Data with Recommendations for Associated Software, n.d., 1 item

'Pennsylvania's Computer Age: A look at ADP in the Commonwealth', Second Edition, July 1968, 1 item

'Pennsylvania's Computer Age: A look at the ADP in the Commonwealth', Third Edition, Jul 1969, 1 item

M770/BOX 17

Details visit USA, Canada and Japan by A.E. Shaw, W.T. Andrew and J. Strogen of Manchester Corporation to consult with various organisations about the use and performance of I.B.M. and Univac computers, Sep 1970, 1 file

Institute of Muncipal Treasurers and Accountants, Lecture, 'Elements of of Punched Card Accounting; by H.R. Page, Mar 1955, 1 item

City of Manchester, ' Computers for Manchester Corporation in the City Treasurer's Department using a LEO 111', n.d., 1 item

'Computer Feasibility Study: A report to the City Treasurer on Computers for Corporation Work', Jun 1962, 1 item (4 copies)

Payroll information: print outs of salary charts, c. 1960s, 1 bundle

Blank charts for computer testing data, n.d., 1 bundle

M770/BOX 18

City of Manchester, Reports on Committees, Services and Departments, 1950s-1960s, 2 bundles

'Housing Finance Act 1972: Chapter 47', 1972, 1 item

Manchester Corporation, 'F29 Computer Accommodation 80 Mosley Street': drawings relating to the electrical, ventilation and alarm systems, c. 1971-1972, 1 bundle

M770/BOX 19

Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accounts: 'Computer Rate Accounting and Administration', n.d., 1 item, 'The Welfare State and Local Authories', 1955, 1 item; 'The use of Computers for Non-Financial Work in Local Authorities, 1966, 1 item: 'The Impact of Computers in Local Government', 1966-1967, 1 item; 'O & M and the Treasurer's Department', 1967, 1 item; 'Wages Records of Local Authories and Public Boards', 1952, 1 item; 'Electronics in Local and Public Authority Accountancy', n.d., 1 item; 'Design and Layout of Data Processing Rooms and Installations', n.d., 1 item

'Local Government Reform', Jun 1969, 1 item

'Local Government Act 1974: Chapter 7, 1974', 1 item

'Management and Management Techniques with Particular Reference to Local Government', 1968, 1 item

City of Manchester, 'The City's Finances: A Pictorial Summary', 1946, 1 item

Ministry of Labour, 'The Cost of Living Index Number', 1931, 1 item

Treasurer's Department, 'Codes of Departmental Practice: The Handling of Cash', 1961, 1 item

British Standards Institution, ' Specification for Dividend and Interest Warrants and Related Tax Vouchers', 1964, 1 item

'The London County Council and the Rating of Site Values', n.d., 1 item

Society of Treasurers, 'Seleting and Installing a Computer', Jun 1964, 1 item

National and Local Government Officers Association,'The Question of Affiliation to the Trades Union Congress, 1955, 1 item

The British Tabulating Machine Company Ltd, 'An Introduction to Binary Arithmetic', n.d., 1 document

Cambridge University Press, 'Calculating Machines', 1947, 1 item

Political and Economic Planning, 'The Human Factor in Industry', 1948, 1 item

Paper on Punched-Card Equipment, n.d., 1 item

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 'Automation in Perspective', 1956, 1 item

Society of County Treasurers, 'Selecting and Installing a Computer', Jun 1946, 1 item

National Physical Laboratory, ' Wage Accounting by Electronic Computer', 1956, 1 item

Data Processing Cards and guide book, n.d.

M770/BOX 20

City of Manchester, 'Abstract of the City Treasurer's Accounts', 1973-1973, 1 volume

City of Manchester, 'Increase in Number of Employers 1960-1966', Mar 1967, 1 item

'The Re-organsisation and Planning of the Treasurer's Department: Some proposals for a more efficienct office', 1944, 1 item

'Manchester Corporation Waterworks: Notes on Mechanisation of Accounting of Meter Charges', n.d., 1 item

'Hollerith Computer Study Group: The Scope for a Computer in a Municipal Transport Undertaking', May 1960, 1 item

'Your City: Manchester 1838-1938', 1938, 1 item

'Study Tour to Groupe Bull - France', May 1990, 1 item

'Super computer saves time - and staff', n.d., newspaper article

Munipal Information Bureau Manchester Town Hall, ' The City Treasurer, Booklet No. 4', n.d., 1 item

'Computer Analysis of Traffic Census' by A.E. Shaw and R.A. Mash of City Treasurer's Department, Manchester, Jul 1962, 1 item

City Treasurer's Report, 'Electronic Developments and Machine Accounting', Feb 1957, 1 item

Notes on punched-card accounting, n.d., 1 bundle

Notes on I.C.T Type 1202 computer, 550 Electronic Calculator and I.C.T. 555 Plugged Program Computer

City Treasurer's Report, 'Direct Works Department: Finance and Costing, Nov 1967, 1 item

Memorandum to City Librarian, 'Book Storage System', May 1963, 1 item

Notes, papers and correspondence relating to computer development and introduction of data processing, c.1960s, 1 bundle

Letters to H.R. Page, City Treasurer, 1962-1963, 3 items

IBM invoices, 1962, 7 items

'Report of a Conference held on 1st-3rd February, 1962 to consider operational research and its relationship to O.&.M.', 1962, 1 item

'The XXXquot;AjustXXXquot; Conference - Tokyo', Sep 1970, 1 item

H.M. Treasury, 'The Design of Forms', Oct 1945, 1 item

H.M. Treasury, ' Alphabetical Classification of Surnames', n.d., 1 item

Lancashire County Council, 'Payroll Production: using the '555' plugged programme Computer, n.d. 1 item

'Management and Administration in the Local Government Service', Dec 1968, 1 item

M770/BOX 21

International Computers Limited, 'System 4-70: Proposal to the City of Manchester', 26 Mar 1970, 3 folders

M770/BOX 22

'LEO Programming Course Manual', 1962-1964, 2 volumes

M770/BOX 23

Videocassettes: Programming in Cobol, 3 tapes, n.d.

1. Introduction

2. Structure of Cobol

3. The Procedure Division

4. The Data Division

5. File handling

6. The complete program

M770/BOX 24

Videocassettes: Programming in Cobol, 3 tapes, n.d.

7. Table handling and qualification

8. Other useful needs

9. Efficiency

10. Index and search

11. Sorting

12. The report writer

M770/25

'The Journal of the Machine Section of the City Treasurers Department Manchester', 1947-1949, 1 volume

'Samples of Output': Payment of Interest to Investors, Rate Note, Invoices, Examples of Schedules, Examples of punched-cards, n.d., 1 volume

Examples of punched-cards (large, mounted on board), n.d., 7 boards

M770/26

Plans for LEO Computer at Manchester Town Hall, 1946-1966

12 plans (rolled) including:

Ground Floor Plan: LEO Computer, Nov 1963

Identification plans for LEO 3 Computer (2 plans)

Wall and ceiling treatment plan, 20 May 1960

LEO computer suite plan, n.d.

Computer room layout plan, 23 Jul 1963

Cabling details plan, n.d.

Overview, 22 Sep 1966

Proposed layout for tabulator room, 2 drawings, 24 May 1963

Computer room, 27 Aug 1962

Ground Floor, 17 Oct 1946