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Description: | Records of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company (Great Britain) Ltd consisting of management records including Articles of Association, Annual Reports, records relating to share holding and Minutes of Board Meetings; legal records comprising title deeds and associated papers; financial and accounting records; employment records; operational and sales records; promotional material including in-house publications and company histories; photographs and photographic slides; films and audio recordings; and maps and plans primarily relating to the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company (Great Britain) Limited and in particular to the functions and activities of the company's factory at Wolverhampton from its establishment in 1927. The collection includes some earlier administrative and financial papers relating to Goodyear operations in England between 1913 and 1927, when the company ran a branch office in London, and there is some promotional material relating to the Gooydear (Great Britain) factories established at Garscadden, near Glasgow, in 1957 and at Craigavon in Northern Ireland in 1968. In addition, there is some promotional and administrative material relating to the parent company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, based at Akron, Ohio, and to the operations of Goodyear International in other countries. However, the main focus of the collection is on Goodyear operations in Wolverhampton from 1927 to the 1970s.
The collection is a rich source of information for the study of the establishment, development and expansion of Goodyear in Britain, and also provides an insight into the day to day operations of the Wolverhampton factory, particularly during the 1930s period, for which a broad variety of material survives. The in-house newsletters and photographs in this collection reveal a wealth of detail about the activities of both men and women workers at the Wolverhampton plant, and feature some of the many sporting and social activities and employee welfare arrangements organised by the company. The collection also reveals the impact of the Second World War on the factory and its employees, and documents post-war expansion, while the substantial amount of advertising and sales material in the collection can be used for the study of the development of Goodyear products and manufacturing methods from the 1920s to the 1980s. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Rubber industry and trade Manufacturing industry | Temporal: | 1901 - 1980s | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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