Catalogue description RANK, HOVIS, MCDOUGAL AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES

This record is held by Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre

Details of A70/18
Reference: A70/18
Title: RANK, HOVIS, MCDOUGAL AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES
Description:

Accounts, personnel, general filing and other records relating to Rank, Hovis, McDougal Agricultural Industries
Date: c1880 - 1970
Arrangement:

This archive has been arranged, as far as is possible, to reflect the original order of the records as they existed when the firm was operative. Hence the first part of the archive is listed according to the firm's filing system. The titles of the files have been used in this list. The second is an artificial list, since no surviving list exists to show how these latter records were originally arranged.

 

Invented order

 

Plant

 

Stock

 

Research and Development

 

Financial

 

Fuel

 

Sales and Customers

 

Personnel

 

Robinson Benevolent Fund and Institute

 

Councils for the Flour Milling industry

 

Fire Accidents

 

Miscellaneous
Held by: Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Rank, Hovis, McDougal Agricultural Industries Ltd., agricultural goods suppliers
Physical description: 42 series, 1698 files
Access conditions:

Open, unless stated otherwise in the list
Immediate source of acquisition:

The following items were received from R.H.M. Agricultural Industries Ltd in 1970

 

Acquired by: Indefinite Loan
Subjects:
  • Agricultural products
Administrative / biographical background:

Rank, Hovis, McDougal was a large industrial concern, existing from the later nineteenth century, which possessed many mills throughout Britain and Northern Ireland. In the early twentieth century, Robinsons Mill, which was located at Deptford Bridge, became part of their flour milling empire. Robinsons Mill specialized in the manufacture of agricultural supplies, chiefly feedstuffs for animals.

 

Robinsons Benevolent Fund gave money to subscribing employees who were absent from work due to sickness or accident. Robinsons Institute was responsible for social and sporting activities.
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