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Description: | This ledger largely covers the period from 1890 to 1919, but there are also figures for sales of blanks between 1870 and 1906, towards the end of the volume.
There is a detailed index at the front of the volume; however, this appears to have been superseded by a later index which is set out inside the front cover.
The volume contains details of monthly sales of products manufactured by Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd at the firm's Albert Street, Bankfield and Manor Ironworks. There are also some figures for sales at the Hadley Castle Works from 1910. Sales figures are set out by product type and show the volume of sales of different manufactured items, providing evidence about the popularity of different lines produced by the company. There are sales figures for pans, discs and blanks 1890-1906; enamelled ware 1905-1918; pipe flanges 1905-1912 and 1917-1919; motor car stampings 1905-1913; electro-plating 1902-1909; Neptune ware 1891-1918; brass, copper and caspian silver ware 1902-1919; Cassadas 1899-1918; dish covers 1900-1918; drums and kegs 1892-1919; motor bodies 1907-1913; motor wheels 1909-1915; maslins 1900-1919; baths 1898-1906; and aircraft 1917-1918.
There are also sales figures under headings of the names of individuals including Wiley, Bourne and Fellowes. There are entries for the first two of these names in the company's Bought Journals described at DB-25/3/20/12 and DB-25/3/20/13 for the payment of salaries, so it is possible that they may have been sales representatives.
The volume also contains sales figures for Australia, South Africa and Ireland, suggesting that the company was exporting goods to these countries. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1870-1919 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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