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Catalogue description Records of the GLOUCESTER RAILWAY CARRIAGE & WAGON COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES
This record is held by Gloucestershire Archives
| Reference: | D4791 |
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| Title: | Records of the GLOUCESTER RAILWAY CARRIAGE & WAGON COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES |
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COMPANY RECORDS Articles of Association, 1860-1962 Directors' reports and accounts (loose), 1860-1960 Reports of proceedings of ordinary and extraordinary meetings, 1862-1955 Annual returns, 1860-1961 Stocks, shares and debentures, 1860-1968 ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL RECORDS Directors' minute books, 1860-1962 Agenda books, 1867-1962 Board meeting reports and papers, 1933-1947 Correspondence and notes for the Chairman and correspondence with directors, 1917-1949 Reports and accounts, 1860-1961 Accounts papers, 1893-1938 Ledgers and bills receivable, 1869-1971 Financial guarantees and agreements, 1880-1962 Corporation Tax appeal papers, 1920-1925 PRODUCTION RECORDS Order books, 1905-1969 Photograph albums, 1862-1961 Miscellaneous albums and special compilation album, 1862-1949 Numbered photographs, c.1896-1969 Other original photographs, 1896-c.1970 Drawing Office requisition books, 1914-1981 Registers of drawings, 1871-1980 Rolls of engineering drawings, 1911-1982 Volumes of drawings, c.1895-1963 Plans of offices and works, 1902-1971 Contracts, 1887-1966 World War II work, 1941-1947 British Air Rail Ltd. - monorail project, 1895-1961 Toronto Transportation Commission contract, 1952-1959 Patents, 1890-1947 Technical literature, 1854-c.1973 PROPERTY Deeds of company property, 1784-1969 Leases, 1882-1951 Contracts for building work, 1886-1903 Site services: water, telephones, drains, 1866-1921 Use of canal water and railway lines at the Docks, 1885-1963 Light and air agreements, 1877-1906 Use of equipment and materials at the site, 1893-1970 Insurance policies, 1902-1968 Inventories and valuations, 1884-1943 Miscellaneous legal papers, 1880-1949 Agency agreements, 1886-1961 Reports on overseas markets, c.1890-1949 Wagon leases and sales, 1877-1960 BUSINESS WITH OTHER COMPANIES British companies, 1886-1968 American business - American Car & Equipment Co., 1889-1892 Other American business - agreements, leases and related papers, 1883-1898 CATALOGUES AND PUBLICITY MATERIAL Sale catalogues and advertising brochures, 1893-c.1960 Catalogues of other companies' rolling stock, 1900-c.1960 Scrapbooks and press cuttings, 1884-1978 Financial press cuttings, 1945-1963 STAFF RECORDS Superannuation and pensions, 1900-1966 Service agreements and staff changes, 1875-1962 Life assurance policies, 1936-1969 Benevolent fund, 1948 Miscellaneous, 1908-1916 SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUBS Sports and social clubs, 1925-1964 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL ASSOCIATIONS Business and Financial Associations papers, 1886-1949 RECORDS OF ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Winget Gloucester Ltd., 1961-1977 Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company/Gloucester Engineering Ltd./Winget Ltd., 1962-1979 William Gardner & Sons (Gloucester) Ltd., 1612-1973 Gloucester Foundry Ltd., 1920-1977 Wright & Marvin Ltd./Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company, 1949-1975 Gloucester Wagon Hiring Company, 1944-1948 Wagon Repairs Ltd., 1918-1946 Larmuth & Bulmer Ltd., 1833-1964 Joseph Kaye & Sons Ltd., 1942-1962 Hatherley Works Ltd., 1966 Cable & General Instruments Ltd., 1966-1968 Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., 1978-1979 |
| Date: | 1784-1979 |
| Related material: |
[See also Gloucestershire Record Office D4557 for records of the associated company E. Boydell & Co. trading under the name of Muir Hill; and Gloucestershire Record Office D5768 for a privately deposited photograph album of Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co.] |
| Held by: | Gloucestershire Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 16 sub-fonds |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
deposited by the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company, Bristol Road, Gloucester, and Babcock International PLC, Bristol Road, Gloucester, and 165 Great Dover Street, London, 28 March 1984, 7 July and 1 August 1986, 8 March and 13 May 1988 |
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(Accs. 5254, 5271, 5655, 5714, 6806, 6813 7003, 7728) |
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| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Company was first incorporated in 1860 as The Gloucester Wagon Company. In 1888 it was reincorporated as Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company. The company acquired various subsidiaries including The Gloucester Foundry Ltd., William Gardner & Sons (Gloucester) Ltd., Joseph Kaye & Sons Ltd., Wright & Marvin Ltd. (renamed Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company in 1961), Hatherley Works Ltd., and Gloucester Wagon Hiring Company Ltd. It was also a major shareholder in Wagon Repairs Ltd. Records of all these companies are included in the list of records of subsidiary companies. With effect from 29 December 1961, Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company was acquired by Winget Ltd. of Rochester, Kent. The new parent company was called Winget Gloucester Ltd. The Gloucester subsidiary was renamed Gloucester Engineering Company Ltd. and a new company called Winget Ltd. was established at Rochester. On 1 April 1962 the trading activities of William Gardner & Sons (Gloucester) Ltd. and E. Boydell & Company Ltd., a Winget subsidiary, which operated under the trading name of Muir Hill, were transferred to Gloucester Engineering Company Ltd. [For records of this company see D4557 and D5768.] The trading activities of Moxey Ltd. were similarly transferred from 1 April 1963 following its acquisition by Winget Gloucester Ltd. An important reorganisation of the group's structure occurred with effect from 1 April 1964 with the aim of making the Gloucester company the main operating company. Gloucester Engineering Company's name was changed to Winget Ltd. and it acquired the business and operating assets of the Rochester subsidiary, Winget Ltd., and simultaneously Winget Ltd's. name was changed to Gloucester Engineering Co. Ltd. Following these changes Winget Ltd. operated with Gloucester and Rochester based divisions. To further integrate the activities of the manufacturing companies in the group, divisional boards of directors were set up responsible for the sales and engineering aspects of the operations. The contracts and industrial equipment division included Winget, William Gardner & Sons, Moxey Ltd., and Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company. The cable and wire mill machinery equipment division included Winget, Hanson & Edwards, and Larmuth & Bulmer (acquired by Winget Gloucester Ltd. in 1962). The building and civil engineering construction equipment division included Winget, E. Boydell & Company, and Slater & England. Gloucester Foundry Ltd., Hatherley Works Ltd. and a subsidiary of the original Winget Ltd., Moore's Plant Ltd., remained outside this divisional structure. From 1 April 1968 Winget Gloucester Ltd. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd. Perhaps because the existence of the records was not known even within the company, few books or articles have been published. A rather slight centenary history was produced in 1960 (A History of the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company, pub. Weidenfeld and Nicolson); the authors remained anonymous. A useful account of the early history ("The Gloucester Wagon Co. Ltd." by Mike Christenson) was published in nos. 6 and 7 of the British Railway Journal, 1985 and 1986. A selection of photographs from the magnificent series kept by the company was published in 1981 as Private Owner Wagons from the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd. compiled by Keith Montague. |
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