Renold and Coventry Chain Co. Ltd. (R+CC)

Memorandum and articles of association 1930; Managing Directors Council minutes, 1949-1967; Sales Council minutes, 1949-1967; minutes of Executive Sales Council, 1931-1949 and Sales Co-ordination Committee of Hans Renold Ltd., Coventry Chain Co. Ltd. and Brampton Brothers Ltd., 1930; minutes of Managing Directors Works Council, Newton Mill, Hyde, Cheshire, 1941-1944; minutes of Works Council, Coventry Chain Works, 1932-1936; Drawing Office minutes, 1928-1940.

Sales merchandise meeting reports, 1930-1945; report of shareholders meeting, 1932 and press comments on C.W. Goff's libel action against the 'Finance News'; memoranda relating to possible merger with Perry and Co. Ltd., 1936; report of Indian conference, 1936; survey of oil well drilling equipment and procedure in the U.S.A., 1938-1939; German mission survey, 1947, and reports of trips, 1947-1948; preliminary investigation report and other papers relating to proposed cycle chain manufacture in India, 1950-1952 and later; works prospects, 1953-1955; correspondence relating to cycle production, 1953-1977; record of termination of five year agreement with Arnold and Stolzenberg GmbH, circa 1953.

Trading accounts and organisation charts, 1930-1949; financial expense and trading accounts, 1932-1954, including budgets, balance sheets, etc.; papers relating to subsidiary companies: accounts, 1932 and closing of the books, 1933-1936; papers relating to the audit of the company and associated companies, 1933-1936; valuation review of subsidiary companies, 1936-1938.

Plans of Coventry Works, 1858-1964; cycle, motorcycle and automobile catalogues, 1930s-1950s; 'Vade-Mecum' for Salesmen, 1940; C.G. Renold's papers relating to aims of Administrative Staff College, 1943; details of production of small arms ammunition and schedule of pre-war occupation of employees (drawn up circa 1944); 'Renold News Letter', 1948-1972 (15 volumes) and special edition Publicity Plan, 1951-52.

Photograph of Brampton Brothers Ltd. staff visiting Burnage Works, 1931; photographs of directors, managers, agents and employees in the forces, circa 1939 (1 album); photographs of Newton Mill, Hyde, Cheshire, Renold Works, Burnage, and Coventry Chain Works, during the Second World War (2 boxes); photographs of war damage at Coventry Works, Newton Mill, Branch Offices and S.A. des Etablissement Brampton Calais Works, circa 1941 (1 album); aerial photographs of Renold Works at Manchester, Coventry and Cardiff and S.A. des Etablissement Brampton Works at Calais, circa 1945 (1 file); 'Management Album', 1947; photograph album of visit to Cardiff Works by the Minister of Supply and Sales Conference delegates, 1950.

Paper by C.G. Renold entitled 'Rationalization of the Management of Companies under a Merger', 1931, 1935; note concerning attitude to employment of married women, circa 1938; historical review of group companies, to 1945; papers of O. Bertoya for the British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, relating to the chain industry in Germany, circa 1945-1946; film of E.E. Hempsall's U.S.A. visit, 1951; Chairman's remarks at management dinners, 1954-1969, with summary for period after Second World War; notes on the history and organisation of the group, newspaper cuttings, articles and history of company.