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Description: | Records of Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd and of subsidiary companies, primarily consisting of financial, employment, and operational records of Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss Ltd, but also including financial and other records of British and overseas subsidiaries. Records of Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd consist of corporate and management records including share holding records; legal records comprising papers relating to patents; financial and accounting records; employment records; production and sales records; plant and property records including inventories and plans; promotional material including in-house publications and company histories; photographs and photographic slides; and papers relating to the Sankey family including personal and administrative correspondence.
The collection provides a wealth of information about the functions and activities of Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd during the first half of the twentieth century, and also provides some information about the company's earlier financial and operational history during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In addition, there is substantial material relating to the post-war diversification of the firm, particularly relating to the development of the Automatic Vending Division during the 1960s and 1970s. The records can be used to study the development and expansion of the firm through this period, and the changes in the focus of production over time, which were partly due to the growth of the automotive industry and shifting fashions in the domestic and commercial markets, but were also influenced by the company's acquisition of smaller subsidiaries and reciprocal arrangements with other companies in the GKN group. The collection also reveals the impact of the First World War, and particularly the Second World War on both production and workers through the significant contribution that the Sankey Works made to the war effort in producing armaments and supplies for the armed services. The employment and production records, and some of the company histories and in-house publications provide an insight into the experiences of Sankey employees during the period, and the sales catalogues and advertising material in the collection can be used, together with the financial and production records and the product photograph albums, to chart the development of Sankey products and manufacturing methods during the course of a large part of the twentieth century. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Automotive industry Metal industry Business history | Temporal: | 1870 - 1983 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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