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Description: | These ledgers primarily consist of detailed accounts recording transactions of customers of Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss Ltd, Wolverhampton. The firm's main customers appear to have been railway companies and local governments, throughout the period covered by the customer accounts ledgers. Each ledger contains substantial accounts of several railway companies, both in Britain and Ireland, and a number of town and city corporations. During the 1930s, accounts for county councils join those for corporations. Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss Ltd's chief business with local government was to supply iron railings for schools and parks, and the company was a major supplier of railway fastenings, nuts, and bolts to railway companies. The customer accounts ledgers also contain a number of accounts for various tramway companies across England, and a wide range of local and national businesses, particularly builders and contractors, steel companies, ironmongers, and agricultural merchants, but there are also accounts for several other industries. Other organisations represented include Parish councils and Poor Law Unions.
The ledgers also contain customer accounts for private individuals, including accounts for members of the landed gentry settled through their estate offices. Later ledgers also contain accounts for British companies with overseas interests as well as overseas companies and governments. Customer accounts ledgers covering the years during and leading up to the World Wars include substantial accounts with the English government, particularly the Air Ministry, the War Office, the Ministry of Supply, and the Ministry of Works. These reveal striking evidence of the increased construction or improvement of fortifications during the 1930s.
This sub-series also contains three ledgers dating from the late 1920s and early 1930s that are unidentified. Internal evidence suggests that they are also Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss Ltd customer accounts ledgers, but that they might originate from the company's London business. They contain accounts for the same kind of customers, and the same products are being supplied - namely railings, fencing, rods, bolts, washers and clips, but businesses and organisations based in London and the South East are dominant. These ledgers are arranged at the end of the sequence, in chronological order. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1906 - 1944 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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