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Description: | Financial records, predominantly of Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd, but also of a number of subsidiary companies, chiefly Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss Ltd, but also Sankeys overseas subsidiaries, and subsidiaries in Britain that were involved in the manufacture of similar goods to those produced by Sankeys, which had either been taken over by Sankeys or by GKN Ltd and so had a connection with the company.
A large proportion of these records consist of long sequences of annual accounts, including capital expenditure, depreciation and tax and Excess Profits Duty accounts and those of different Works; annual accounts of overseas subsidiary companies, including Joseph Sankey & Sons Canada Ltd; Joseph Sankey & Sons Australia Ltd; Joseph Sankey & Sons South Africa Ltd; and Sankey Electrical Stampings Ltd, which was based in India; annual accounts of subsidiary companies in Britain including Florence Stove & Hardware Co. Ltd; Sankey Sheldon Ltd; Sankey Plated Pressings Ltd; Oberg-Sankey Ltd; Electro Mechan-Heat Ltd and other GKN subsidiaries.
In addition to these records, the series also comprises private and nominal ledgers, and journals of Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd, as well as a substantial number of accounts ledgers of Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss Ltd, a Wolverhampton nut, bolt and iron fencing manufacturing firm which was taken over by GKN Ltd in 1920, and some ledgers and journals of other Sankeys or GKN Ltd subsidiary companies. The Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss Ltd ledgers provide valuable information about the business functions and financial activities of that company during the first half of the twentieth century, including much detail about its customers and particulars of the goods supplied. Unfortunately, the Sankeys ledgers do not contain this kind of detail, despite the survival of series of statistics books and analysis books which contain summarised information about sales and purchases. One sales ledger also survives, as well as a comprehensive set of card index files providing information about products supplied to customers and goods and materials purchased by the firm between 1902 and 1920. Both types of record give detailed particulars of products supplied, and provides an insight into the wide variety of products the company was manufacturing during the late nineteenth century and the first few years of the twentieth century. The card index files are also a rich source of information about the broad range of raw materials required by the firm during this period in order to manufacture its goods and to carry on other day to day activities.
The series also includes the financial records of the Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd social and sports club established at the company's Stourport Works, dating from the 1950s. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1880-1967 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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