Catalogue description Vickers Armstrong Records [including former constituent companies] and Elswick Mechanics Institute and Works School Records 1847 - 1979

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Title: Vickers Armstrong Records [including former constituent companies] and Elswick Mechanics Institute and Works School Records 1847 - 1979
Description:

D.VA/1 Machinery shop work in hand book, 1847-1852 [in 1847 three main buildings were erected on the Elswick site - a machinery shop, blacksmith's shop and erecting shop. Production began on 1 October. This volume details date of order, description of work, order number, customer's name, date of completion, and is an interesting source of information concerning the earliest years of the company].

 

D.VA/2/1-12 Guides to the Company and its products, 1912-1965

 

D.VA/3-12 Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, 1912-1957

 

D.VA/13/1-30 Aircraft photographs, 1913-1918

 

D.VA/14/1-7 Aircraft factory photographs, 1900-1960

 

D.VA/15/1-7 Photographs of employees, 1863 - c.1918

 

D.VA/16-19 Airships, c.1919-1968

 

D.VA/20/1-18 Airship photographs, c.1918-1925

 

D.VA/21-23 Ships, c.1880-1940

 

D.VA/24/1-12 Ship photo-graphs, c.1899-1903

 

D.VA/25-29 Cars, 1902-1960

 

D.VA/30/1-5 Car photographs, c.1906-1920

 

D.VA/31/1-25 Armstrong Sauer Lorries - photographs, c.1920s - 1940s

 

D.VA/32/1-9 Other vehicles - photographs

 

D.VA/33-46 Tractors, 1950s - 1960s

 

D.VA/47/1-13 Marine machinery, 1927-1964

 

D.VA/48/1-3 Small machinery, 1940s

 

D.VA/49-53 First World War, 1914-1960

 

D.VA/54/1-14 Elswick Works plans, 1837-1969

 

D.VA/55/1-7 Elswick Works etchings, c.1848-1899

 

D.VA/56/1-6 Foremen's Row photographs, 1856-1908

 

D.VA/57/1-13 Elswick Works photographs c.1860s-1900

 

D.VA/58-60 Elswick Works Officials Dining Club, 1904 - 1928

 

D.VA/61 Apprentices welfare club, 1939

 

D.VA/62-63 Personnel matters

 

D.VA/64-70 Magazines, 1928-1979

 

D.VA/71-72 Extracts from magazines, c.1930s-1961

 

D.VA/73 Lord Armstrong, 1900-1983

 

D.VA/74 Sir Andrew Noble, 1906-1932

 

D.VA/75 Armstrong's Hydraulic machinery, 1838-1979
Date: 1837 - 1979
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by subject on account of its miscellaneous nature.
Related material:

For official Vickers Armstrong records see Accessions 31, 130, 450, 503, 1655, 1027, 130
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Vickers Armstrong

Elswick Mechanics Institute and Works School
Physical description: 125 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 1975
Custodial history:

Unlike the official records of Vickers, these diverse papers have been collected together over many years and deposited by a long serving member of staff at Elswick with a great interest in, and knowledge of, the history of the Company.
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