Consett Iron Company
Reference: D/Co Catalogue Title: Consett Iron Company Area: Catalogue Category: Business and Industry Records Description: Production, Marketing and Promotion
Covering Dates: 1864-1970
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- Consett Iron Company
- Consett Iron Company (Ref: D/Co)
- Production (Ref: D/Co section 01)
- Accounts of Cost Charges (Ref: D/Co 16/1-10)
- Make [Production] Books (Ref: D/Co 19/1-5)
- Smith's Forge Accounts (Ref: D/Co 20/1)
- Selling Price Book (Ref: D/Co 21/1)
- Manufacturing Journals (Ref: D/Co 26/1-3)
- Marketing and Promotion (Ref: D/Co section 02)
Catalogue Description
The original arrangement and numbering of the collection was as follows:1. Annual General Meeting minutes
2. Board minutes
3. Indexes to board minutes
4. Letter books
5. Newspaper cuttings
6. Share records
7. Registers of ore properties
8. Coal royalty books
9. Indexes to contracts
10. Correspondence and reports
11. not used
12. Photographs
13. General manager's agenda book
14. Directors' attendance fees
15. Visitors' books
16. Accounts of cost charges
17. Private cost books
18. Stock books
19. Make (Production) books
20. Smith's forge accounts
21. Selling price books
22. Profit and loss accounts
23. Cash accounts
24. Reports of directors
25. Finance Committee minutes
26. Manufacturing journals
27. Seal books
28. Journal
29. Deed books
30. Plans
50 The Consett Spanish Ore Company
51 The Orconera Iron Ore Company
52 The New Jarrow Steel Company Limited
53 Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Iron and Steel Trade of the North of England
54 North of England Iron and Steel Manufacturers' Association
55 Consett British Schools
The collection has now been rearranged, but original numbers have been retained
Catalogue Contents
Consett Iron Company (Ref: D/Co)Production (Ref: D/Co section 01)Accounts of Cost Charges (Ref: D/Co 16/1-10)Ref: D/Co 16/1
Account book of cost charges, pay ending 9 January 1904 - pay ending 27 April 1907 [D/Co 91]
Gives, for each pay in each colliery: total coal raised, wages paid, rent and coal, stores, royalty, estimated charges: for each blast furnace: make and ores
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: D/Co 16/2Account book of cost charges, pay ending 11 May 1907 - 13 August 1910 [D/Co 92]
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: D/Co 16/3Account book of cost charges, pay ending 27 August 1910 - pay ending 27 December 1913 [D/Co 93]
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: D/Co 16/4Account book of cost charges, pay ending 10 January 1914 - pay ending 29 September 1917 [D/Co 94]
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: D/Co 16/5Account book of cost charges, pay ending 13 October 1917 - pay ending 2 July 1921 [D/Co 95]
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: D/Co 16/6Account book of cost charges, pay ending 16 July 1921 - 4 October 1927 [D/Co 96]
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: D/Co 16/7Copy letter from the Ministry of Munitions of War, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, to the Consett Iron Company Limited, indicating how much ore may be purchased, and enclosing a list of the hematite iron ores with the price and shipping port of each, 21 December 1917
Originally enclosed in D/Co 16/5
(4 papers)
Ref: D/Co 16/8Letter from the Consett Iron Company, Limited, Consett, to Mr. Jones, Cost Office, concerning ore parity prices, 1 February 1918
Originally enclosed in D/Co 16/5
(1 paper)
Ref: D/Co 16/9Notes concerning the purchase of iron ore from the Orcanera Iron Ore Company, 20 March 1917 and 8 December 1919
Originally enclosed in D/Co 16/5
(2 papers)
Ref: D/Co 16/10Account of materials used in the East, West and North Shops of the steel works, half year ending June 1918, December 1918, June 1919, December 1929, April 1921
(5 papers)
Make [Production] Books (Ref: D/Co 19/1-5)Ref: D/Co 19/1Coke and bye-product make book, October 1923 - March 1933 [D/Co 111]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: D/Co 19/2Coke and bye-product make book, April 1933 - March 1943 [D/Co 112]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: D/Co 19/3Tar works make book, April 1933 - March 1957 [D/Co 113]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: D/Co 19/4Blast furnace consumptions and makes, half-year ending 3 October 1925 - half-year ending 2 October 1937 [D/Co 114]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: D/Co 19/5Blast furnace consumptions and makes, half-year ending 2 April 1938 - half-year ending September 1952 [D/Co 115]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Smith's Forge Accounts (Ref: D/Co 20/1)Ref: D/Co 20/1Smith's forge account book, pay ending 16 July 1921 - 2 May 1942 [D/Co 116]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Selling Price Book (Ref: D/Co 21/1)Ref: D/Co 21/1Selling price book, April 1937 - March 1942 [D/Co 117]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Manufacturing Journals (Ref: D/Co 26/1-3)Ref: D/Co 26/1Manufacturing journal, no. 2, 30 June 1864 - 2 January 1892
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: D/Co 26/2Manufacturing journal, no. 3, 30 June 1892 - 27 June 1914
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: D/Co 26/3Manufacturing journal, no. 4, 2 January 1915 - July 1922
(1 volume, leather bound)
Marketing and Promotion (Ref: D/Co section 02)32/1-3
Ref: D/Co 32/1Script for a film about the Consett Steelworks, entitled Consett Steel , 8 September 1969
(15 papers, typescript, photocopied)
Ref: D/Co 32/2'Coal, Steel and Iron in Durham, 1700 - 1789', by [G.A. Petch], n.d. [c. 1970] [D/Co 128]
(1 booklet, typescript)
Ref: D/Co 32/3'Coal, Steel and Iron in Durham, 1789 - 1839', by [G.A. Petch], n.d. [c. 1970] [D/Co 129]
(1 booklet, typescript)
