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Records of the Whessoe Foundry, Darlington,deposited on long-term loan

27 February 1990 Acc: 1910(D)

County Record Office
County Hall
Durham
DH1 5UL

Records of the Whessoe Foundry, Darlington

Catalogue Contents


Shareholding records


Minutes


Papers relating to the acquisition and development of the foundry site [see also Plans, Photographs]


Financial records - ledgers - cash books - journals - other


Patents, specifications and related papers


Production and sales records - order books - purchase journals - sales journals - papers concerning estimates and orders - reports on business activity


Technical reports


Technical drawings


Registers of technical drawings


Correspondence - with the London Office - with agents


Employees' records


Plans - of foundry site - Ordnance Survey - other


Photographs - of foundry site - of employees - of products and installations - of locomotive engines - other


Printed publicity, scrapbooks, press cuttings 15/1-95 Papers collected/prepared for the published 'history'


Records of subsidiary companies


Miscellaneous Supplement For records relating to the business before 1895 see also D/Ki 1-105 [catalogue: Family & Estate]

Whessoe Foundry Company (Ref: D/Whes)Shareholding records (Ref: D/Whes 1/1-13)

Notification of 22nd General Meeting of shareholders, 29 November 1911
(1 paper)


Copy of resolution of the dividend to be paid on preference shares and deferred shares for the year 1919, n.d. [1919]
(1 paper)


Papers relating to the issue of 200,000 units of ordinary stock of 5s each at 30s., and a bonus issue of 1,000,000 units of 5s. each on 25 November and 31 December 1949 Contains: - statement by the Chairman to the Annual General Meeting, 12 July 1949 - copy of notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting to consider the proposed capitalisation, 14 October 1949 - provisional timetable for the share issue, 12 October 1949 - 3 February 1950 - list of accounts in the names of executors and list of powers of attorney in operation - signed copy of agreement for the bonus issue, 30 December 1949 - lists of names, addresses and holdings of ordinary stockholders, 2 November and 22 December 1949


Copies of resolution to increase the share capital of the company with letter of rights, fully paid letter of allotment, and form of application for excess shares, 14 October - 25 November 1949
(4 papers)


Rough schedule of allotment of ordinary stock, 25 November - 31 December 1949
(1 file)


Register of bonus issue of 1,000,000 new ordinary shares, 31 December 1949
(1 file)


Resolution of an Extraordinary General Meeting to increase the share capital by the creation of 2,000,000 5s. shares, 17 February 1955
(2 papers)


Rough schedule of allotment of issue of 1,600,000 ordinary shares, 17 February 1955
(1 file)


Register of rights issue of ordinary shares, March 1952
(1 file)

Minutes (Ref: D/Whes 2/1-2)

Minute book no.2, 22 July 1915 - 26 October 1918
(1 volume)


Notification of directors' meeting, 23 September 1891
(1 paper)

Papers relating to the acquisition and development of the foundry site (Ref: D/Whes 3/1-39)

31 December 1863 (1) Alfred Kitching of Darlington, ironfounder (2) North Eastern Railway Company Copy of assignment by (1) to (2) of 1a.5p. of land with an iron foundry and other buildings in Darlington Consideration: £6,820
(1 file)


Epitome of title, 1 August 1874 - 15 July 1898, of Messrs. Smith-Rewse & Coates to the Stooperdale estate, 1898
(1 file)


Schedule of deeds, 30 April 1829 - 21 September 1899, to land retained by Messrs. Smith-Rewse & Coates forming part of the Stooperdale Estate and leased to the Whessoe Foundry Company, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 paper)


Legal costs and charges for the acquisition of the Stooperdale Estate by the Whessoe Foundry Co., 24 April 1897 - 23 September 1899
(14 files, 5 papers)


Statement of final application of purchase money for Stooperdale estate, 3 October 1899
(1 file)


Schedule of deeds, 25 July 1876 - 14 July 1898, to 3 houses and strip of land at Hopetown, Darlington, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 paper)


15 April 1907 (1) North Eastern Railway Company (2) Whessoe Foundry Company Ltd. Tenancy agreement for 9a.3r.6p. land at Stooperdale, Darlington Consideration: £27 p.a.
(1 file)


23 December 1909 (1) North Eastern Railway Company (2) Whessoe Foundry Company Ltd Tenancy agreement for 2a.0r.4p. land at Darlington Consideration: £40.10s p.a.
(1 file)


21 December 1914 (1) Henry Stinton Smith-Rewse of London, esq., and Alfred Coates of Darlington, esq. (2) Whessoe Foundry Co. Ltd. Copy of conveyance by (1) to (2) of two pieces of land (4a.2r.20p. and 1a.0r.9p.) adjoining Whessoe Foundry Consideration: £4,000
(1 file)


Inventory of land, buildings, plant, machinery etc. of Whessoe Foundry by Wheatley Kirk, Price & Co., valuers, 26 Collingwood Street, Newcastle, 1916
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Letter from Messrs. Lucas, Hutchinson & Meek of Darlington, solicitors, to Whessoe Foundry Co. Ltd., concerning abstracts of title relating to the Stooperdale state, 28 January 1919
(1 paper)


Schedule of deeds (16 April 1833 - 20 January 1920) relating to property in Foundry Street, Alliance Street, part of the Stooperdale estate, the site of the Whessoe Foundry and adjoining land, n.d. [20 January 1920]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Correspondence with North Eastern Railway Co. concerning leasing and purchase of land, encroachments etc., 9 November 1871 - 28 January 1921
(1 file)


Reports of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology to the Whessoe Foundry and Engineering Co. on the works layout; the proposed works extension scheme; and on lighting, heating and ventilation, and movement, 21 December 1927 - 4 May 1928
(1 file)


Application for preliminary approval for the manufacture of Lloyds Class 1 pressure vessels, with descriptions and photographs of works facilities, 1946-47
(1 file)


Painting by Byron Dawson showing the layout of the works in elevation on completion of the reconstruction scheme, 1948
(1 painting)


Confidential memoranda on the history of the Stooperdale Estate, Darlington, 23 September 1949
(1 file)


Monograph no.6 concerning acquisition and use of Stooperdale Estate, Darlington. Contains draft conveyance (1894) of adjoining ground used for the Whessoe Foundry and Works at Hopetown, Cockerton, n.d. [1949]
(1 file)


Copy of a paper on the development of the drawing office and a resume of events for the period 1920 to 1950 by R. Frith, 5 April 1950
(1 file)


Copy of abstract of title to 14 Alliance Street, Darlington; agreement for use of premises as caretaker's house by trustees of Hopetown & Whessoe Working Men's Club and Institute; and memorandum on relationship between Whessoe Foundry Co. and Club, 31 March 1919 - 11 July 1951
(1 file)


Record of improvements and additions to the works (1891-1921), details of the works reconstruction scheme (1945) and a note on the opening of Hopetown & Whessoe Club (1911), [c.1949] - 11 July 1951
(1 file)

 (Ref: D/Whes 4/1-8)

Financial records

Accounts ledgers


Accounts ledger, 1891 - 1899
(1 volume, calf bound)


Accounts ledger, 1899 - 1905
(1 volume, calf bound)


Accounts ledger, 1905 - 1910
(1 volume, calf bound)


Accounts ledger no.4, 1910 - 1914
(1 volume, calf bound)


Accounts ledger, October 1914 - May 1919
(1 volume, calf and leather bound)


Accounts ledger, 1919 - 1921
(1 volume, calf bound)


Accounts ledger, 1921 - 1929
(1 file)


Accounts ledger, 1921 - 1928
(1 file)

General Ledgers (Ref: D/Whes 4/9-13)

General ledger, 31 May 1891 - 1 May 1907
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General ledger no.1, April 1920 - March 1927
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


General ledger no.2, May 1907 - April 1915
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


General ledger no.3, May 1915 - March 1920
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


General and personal ledger for Iraq contract, April 1961 - April 1962
(1 volume, plastic half-bound)

Impersonal ledger (Ref: D/Whes 4/14)

Impersonal ledger, 30 April 1927 - 31 March 1929
(1 file)

Private ledger (Ref: D/Whes 4/15)

Private ledger no.1, April 1920 - March 1932
(1 volume, calf half-bound)

Cash books (Ref: D/Whes 4/16-44)

Cash book no.2, 1 September 1923 - 31 August 1926
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.3, 1 September 1926 - 30 April 1929
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.4, 1 May 1929 - 31 December 1931
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.5, 4 January 1932 - 29 September 1934
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.6, 1 October 1934 - 30 October 1936
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.7, 2 November 1936 - 30 June 1938
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.8, 1 July 1938 - 29 April 1939
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.9, 1 May 1939 - 31 May 1940
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.10, 1 June 1940 - 30 June 1941
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.11, 1 July 1941 - 31 July 1942
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.12, 1 August 1942 - 31 August 1943
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.13, 1 September 1943 - 30 November 1944
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.14, 1 December 1944 - 28 February 1946 (1 volume, calf half-bound) 4/29 Cash book no.15, 1 March 1946 - 28 February 1947
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.16, 3 March 1947 - 27 February 1948
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cash book no.17, 1 March 1948 - 31 December 1948
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.18, 1 January 1949 - 30 September 1949
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.19, 3 October 1949 - 31 May 1950
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.20, 1 June 1950 - 31 March 1951
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.21, 2 April 1951 - 31 March 1952
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book no.22, 1 April 1952 - 30 September 1955
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Cash book, 1 April 1960 - 31 March 1961
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cash book no.27, 4 April 1961 - 31 March 1962
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cash book no.28, 1 April 1962 - 31 January 1963
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cash book no.29, 1 February 1963 - 16 January 1968
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cash book no.30, 1 April 1963 - 31 March 1964
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cash book no.31, 1 April 1964 - 31 March 1965
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cash book no.32, 1 April 1965 - 31 March 1966
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Cash book no.33, 1 April 1966 - 31 March 1967
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Petty cash books (Ref: D/Whes 4/45-68)

Petty cash book no.17, 1 January 1920 - 30 September 1921
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.1, 1 October 1921 - 31 August 1923
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Petty cash book no.2, 1 September 1923 - 30 May 1925
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.3, 1 June 1925 - 28 February 1927
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.4, 1 March 1927 - 30 December 1928
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.5, 1 January 1929 - 31 August 1930
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.6, 5 September 1930 - 30 June 1932
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.7, 1 July 1932 - 30 April 1934
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.8, 4 May 1934 - 31 December 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.9, 3 January 1936 - 30 June 1937
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.10, 1 July 1937 - 30 November 1938
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.11, 2 December 1938 - 30 March 1940
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.12, 5 April 1940 - 29 September 1941
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.13, 1 December 1941 - 30 July 1943
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.14, 3 August 1943 - 31 May 1945
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.15, 1 June 1945 - 28 February 1947
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.16, 3 March 1947 - 30 April 1948
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.17, 3 May 1948 - 28 April 1949
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.18, 2 May 1949 - 31 January 1950
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.19, 1 February 1950 - 31 August 1951
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.20, 1 September 1950 - 30 April 1951
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.21, 1 May 1951 - 29 February 1952
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.22, 3 March 1952 - 31 March 1953
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Petty cash book no.3, 1 April 1963 - 31 October 1963
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Private Journals (Ref: D/Whes 4/69-70)

Private Journal no.2, 1 July 1899 - 30 April 1915
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Private Journal no.3, 30 June 1915 - 31 March 1932
(1 volume, calf half-bound)

General Journals (Ref: D/Whes 4/71-72)

General Journal no.1, 10 May 1919 - 28 February 1925
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General Journal no.2, 6 March 1925 - 31 March 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Other (Ref: D/Whes 4/73-74)

Copy of promissary note of Alfred Suart and Neil Haig on behalf of the General Oil Storage Company Ltd. to Whessoe Foundry Company Ltd. in the sum of £1160.15s.2d., 6 August 1903
(1 paper)


Annual summary statement of assets, liabilities and profits (1892-1920), n.d. [c.1950]
(1 paper)

Patents, specifications and related papers (Ref: D/Whes 5/1-47)

Copies of patents for locking levers and switches, 4 January 1867; locking apparatus for controlling railway switches and signals, 21 September 1869 - 21 March 1870; apparatus for controlling the cages of mine shafts, 5 November 1879 - 23 April 1880; and buffing apparatus for mining cages, 24 September 1880
(1 file)


Patent licence granted to the Whessoe Foundry Company for carburetting apparatus for preventing the freezing of gas, 13 January 1896
(1 paper)


Provisional and complete amended specifications for preventing the freezing of gas in gas mains, and for carburetting gas, 13 January 1896 - 26 January 1897
(1 file)


Monograph no.12 describing Whessoe - Munich Carburetting Apparatus for preventing the freezing of gas. Includes patent data (1894-96), 21 April 1950
(1 file)


Correspodnence between the Whessoe Foundry Company Ltd. and the General Patent Office concerning the granting of a patent for improvements to gas purifiers, 4 February - 25 April 1902
(1 file)


Monograph no.3 describing, with provisional and complete specifications (19 June 1901 - 24 April 1902), the patent for Whessoe Luteless Purifier Jointing, 3 May 1950
(1 file)


Patent licence granted to Harry Kirkham of London, engineer, and Sarah Ann Chandler of St. Leonards on Sea, widow, for improvements in joints, tanks and gas working and scrubbing devices revolving therein, 6 November 1903
(1 paper)


Provisional and complete specifications for improvements in joints, tanks and gas washing and scrubbing devices revolving therein, 6 November 1903 - 12 May 1904
(1 file)


11 February 1904 (1) Messrs. Kirkham & Chandler (2) Whessoe Foundry Co. Ltd. Agreement for sale by (1) to (2) of patent for improvement in joints, tanks and gas washing and scrubbing devices revolving therein Consideration: £150 plus £75 each for the first two orders
(1 file)


Letter from Whessoe Foundry Co. Ltd., to Josiah Chandler, 39 Victoria Street, Westminster, appointing the latter as agent [terms specified] for Gas Plant or other work, 26 February 1904
(1 file)


27 July 1904 (1) Harry Kirkham of Melksham (co. Wilts), engineer, and Sarah Ann Chandler of St. Leonards on Sea (co. Sussex), widow (2) Whessoe Foundry Co. Ltd., Darlington Assignment by (1) to (2) of patent no.24110 of 6 November 1903 Consideration: £82.10s. in discharge of two outstanding sums of £75
(1 paper)


Monograph no.10, describing Chandler's Patent Detachable Face Retort Mouthpiece (1903). Includes copies of provisional and complete specifications (1903), 21 April 1950
(1 file)


Copy of provisional and complete specifications for an improved method of rotating gas washer scrubbers, 13 December 1904 - 13 April 1905
(1 file)


Illustrated brochure of the Whessoe Rotary Washer-Scrubber for the extraction of ammonia or cyanogen, n.d.
(1 booklet)


Monograph no.13, containing notes on the Whessoe Rotary Washer Scrubber, n.d. [c.1950]
(1 file)


Correspondence with Messrs. Tiddeman & Enthoven, solicitors, 129 Finsbury Pavement, London, concerning the agreement for assigning to the Whessoe Foundry Company the patent rights of E.A. Garrett's invention, 27 December 1906 - 17 January 1907
(1 file)


Specification, agreement and patent for Garratt and Coates's improvements in tanks, reservoirs, caissons and other containers, 28 December 1906 - 16 January 1908
(1 file)


Copy of complete specification of Messrs. E.A. Garratt and A. Coates for improvements in tanks, reservoirs, caissons and other containers, 28 December 1906
(1 file)


Monograph no.9, describing Neilsen and Marshall's Centrifugal Washer and Producer Gas By-Product Recovery Plant (1919-23). Includes licence of patent, assigments and sales of British and foreign patents, and a drawing of the plant process (1910-22)
(1 file)


Patent, provisional specification and drawings for improvements in gasholders granted to H.S. Smith-Rewse, H. Nielson and The Whessoe Foundry, 12 November 1923
(1 envelope)


Patent granted to Harold Nielson and Henry Stinton Smith-Rewse for improvements in gas holders, with complete specification, 11 August 1924 - 22 October 1925
(1 envelope)


Patent specification (no.299,946) for improvements relating to the sealing of gas chambers entered by electric conductors carrying high tension current, 8 November 1928
(1 file)


Patent specification (no.307,805) for improvements in or relating to the removal of soot and other solid particles from smoke and fumes, 14 July 1930
(1 file)


Patent specification (no.338,827) for improvements in liquid seals for gas chambers, 27 November 1930
(1 file)


Report on the electrical precipitation of dust by A.A. Thornton, Fel. C.I.P.A., 7 Essex Street, London WC2, 26 May 1931
(1 file)


Copies of provisional and complete specifications [no. 21075] for improvements in apparatus for electrical treatment of gases, 23 July 1931
(2 files)


Notes on development of electro-static precipitation, firms in field, plants in Great Britain, patent position, and current generator systems, [1931]
(1 file)


Patent specifications (no.381,631) for improvements in apparatus for the electrical treatment of gases, 13 October 1932
(1 file)


Correspondence, specifications and drawing concerning an oil insulator for an electrical detarring plant by Heinrich Schocke, Kaiserslautern, 19 January 1933
(1 file)


Memorandum on the electrical precipitation of grit and dust particularly from boiler flue gases, 16 February 1933
(1 file)


Memorandum on the electrical precipitation of fog and mist from gases, 21 February 1933
(1 file)


Copy of letter from A.A. Thornton, 7 Essex Street, London WC2, to Whessoe Ltd., Darlington, concerning the filing of a patent for an electrostatic precipitation insulator, 21 March 1933
(1 paper)


Provisional specification [no.8942] for improvements in or relating to apparatus for the electrical precipitation of grit and dust from gases, 24 March 1933
(1 file)


Copy of complete specification with drawings of improvements in apparatus for the electrostatic deposition of particles suspended in gases, 13 April 1933
(1 file)


Memorandum relating to electrical precipitation, 14 October 1933
(1 file)


Memorandum and notes on existing patents for electrical precipitation, 15 August 1934
(1 file)


Letter form A.A. Thornton, 7 Essex Street, London, WC2, to Whessoe Ltd., Darlington, fowarding a copy of an amended drawing for patent application no.467823, 16 December 1937
(1 file)


Letters from the General Manager and the Managing Director, Whessoe, to A.A. Thornton, 7 Essex Street, London WC2, concerning modification of an application for an electrical precipitation patent, 19 October 1938 [attached working notes on patents connected with two field precipitation]


Patent specification [no.502,063] for improved method and apparatus for treating substances with electric discharges to facilitate chemical reactions therein, 10 March 1939
(1 paper)


Patent specification [no.558,171] for apparatus for the electrical precipitation of suspended particles from gaseous fluids, 23 December 1943
(1 file)


Patent specification [no.561,020] for improvements in or relating to electrostatic separators, 2 May 1944
(1 file)


Patent specification (no.563,156) for new or improved apparatus for enabling high tension unidirectional current to be obtained from a low tension direct current supply, 1 August 1944
(1 file)


Patent specification [no.568,343] for improvements in and relating to apparatus for the electrical precipitation of suspended particles from gases, 29 March 1945
(1 file)


Letters from R.M. Goodman of W.J. Jenkins & Co. Ltd., Beehive Works, Retford, to A.G. Grant, Whessoe Ltd., Darlington, concerning the De Brouwer retort charger (1903) and the de Brouwer electric coal projecter, 26 November - 28 December 1949
(3 papers)

Summaries of specifications (Ref: D/Whes 5/48-54)

Summary of patented processes for precipitating suspended particles from gases and vapours, 3 January 1916 - 18 December 1924
(1 file)


Summary of patented processes for precipitating suspended particles from gases and vapours, 21 August 1925 - 5 April 1929
(1 file)


Analysis of patent specifications published in the years 1916-25 relating to the electrostatic precipitation, n.d. [c.1933]
(1 file)


Analysis of patent specifications published in the years 1926-31 relating to electrostatic precipitation, n.d. [c.1933]
(1 file)


Summary of patent specifications in conncetions with ammonia, scrubbers, fillings etc., 8 December 1927 - 31 December 1943
(1 file)


Summary of patents relating to electric lamps, apparatus for electric discharges through gases, electric telegraphs and wireless signalling, 25 April 1936 - 8 August 1938
(1 file)


Summary of precipitation patents published during the Second World War, 31 October 1946
(1 paper)

 (Ref: D/Whes 6/1-19)

Production and sales records

Order books


Order book no.1, 1 May 1891 - 30 April 1896
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Order book no.2, 1 May 1896 - 28 December 1900
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Order book no.3, 1 January 1901 - 28 July 1905
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Order book no.4, 29 July 1905 - 26 October 1908
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.5, 27 October 1908 - 31 December 1910
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.6, 3 January 1911 - 29 November 1912
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.7, 29 November 1912 - 3 June 1915
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.8 [Nos. 2115-3326], 4 June 1915 - 15 June 1917
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.9, 19 June 1917 - 12 January 1920
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.10 [nos. 4660-6030], January 1920 - January 1923
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.11 [nos. 6031-7254], January 1923 - May 1925
(1 volume, calf half-bound)


Order book no.12, 28 May 1925 - 22 March 1927
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.13, 23 March 1927 - 10 November 1928
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.14, 13 November 1928 - 26 April 1930
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.15, 30 April 1930 - 19 May 1932
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.16, 19 May 1932 - 28 September 1934
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.17, 26 September 1934 - 10 July 1936
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.18, 15 July 1936 - 4 March 1938
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Order book no.19, 4 March 1938 - 23 March 1939
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

General Order books (inc. details of costings etc.) (Ref: D/Whes 6/20-41)

General order book no.1, 2 october 1925 - 7 March 1928
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.2 [nos. 8837-9999 and 1500-1847], 5 March 1928 - 12 December 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.3 [nos. 1848-3448], 13 December 1929 - 7 April 1932
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.4 [nos. 3449-5115], 7 April 1932 - 28 September 1934
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.5, 1 October 1934 - 13 November 1936
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.6 [nos. 6819-8733], 9 November 1936 - 23 February 1939
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.7, 9 February 1939 - 17 September 1941
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.8, 14 June 1941 - 27 September 1943
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.9 [nos. 3974-5630], 22 September 1943 - 2 October 1945
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.10, 2 October 1945 - 12 June 1947
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.11 [nos. 7646-9733], 16 June 1947 - 23 February 1949
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.12, 21 February 1949 - 19 January 1951
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.13 [nos. 4010-6278], 1 December 1950 - 17 April 1951
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.14, 29 February 1952 - 13 July 1953
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.15 [nos. 8327-10309], 8 May 1953 - 10 August 1954
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.16 [nos. 10310-12384], 23 July 1954 - 27 May 1955
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.18, 6 November 1956 - 22 November 1957
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.19 [nos. 16806-34440], 5 September 1957 - 3 October 1959
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


General order book no.20, 12 June 1959 - 14 april 1961
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Weighing machine order book no.1, January 1920 - May 1932
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Drawing Office order book [nos. 6301-7300], 3 April 1936 - 12 April 1937
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Notes on the order books 1920-30, n.d. [c.1950]
(1 file)

Purchase Journals (Ref: D/Whes 6/42-46)

Purchase journal no.1, May 1919 - December 1920
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Purchase journal no.2, January 1921 - November 1923
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Purchase journal no.3, December 1923 - June 1926
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Purchase journal [no.4], July 1926 - October 1928
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Purchase journal no.5, November 1928 - January 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Sales Journals (Ref: D/Whes 6/47-49)

Sales journal no.1, 1 May 1919 - 31 March 1923
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Sales journal no.2, 4 April 1923 - 30 September 1927
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Sales journal no.3, 3 October 1927 - 31 January 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Papers relating to estimates and orders (Ref: D/Whes 6/50-66)

Analysis of order received, 1831-62 and 1882-91
(1 file)


Copy of draft agreement between Alfred Kitching and the Stockton & Darlington Railway to supply two locomotive engines and tenders as specified, 4 November 1853
(1 paper)


Monograph on the estimate books (1878-89), July 1951
(1 file)


Notes on orders supplied to the Anglo-Americal Oil Company in the period 1888-91, 16 August 1949
(1 papers)


Monograph no.7 on the construction and maintenance of weighbridges (1891-1938) with a summary schedule of work on the production and maintenance of weighbridges and turntables for the above years, 14 October 1949
(1 file)


Costings for a chemical plan for dealing with residuals from 500 tons of coal per week with working results at average prices obtainable over 1896 and at current market prices (26 November 1897), 22 December 1896 - 26 November 1897)
(1 file)


Estimates for gas plants, August 1905 - 15 April 1907
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Monograph no.8 describing early oil refinery plant supplied by Whessoe to Oran Oil Co. (1910-11). Also includes quotations for Rumanian and Egyptian refineries (1911); and asphalting plant (1911), 28 February 1950
(1 file)


Correspondence between A.G. Grant, Whessoe Ltd., and B.N. Reavell, Kestner Evaporator & Engineering Co. Ltd., Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1 concerning work done by Whessoe for Kestner during the First World War, 15-18 August 1949
(1 file)


Copies of specifications for orders, 29 March 1920 - 21 November 1922
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Papers relating to Whessoe's German industrial contacts, 24 May 1924 - 25 April 1939
(1 file)


Contracts supplied and erected by the Whessoe Foundry in connection with the war effort, September 1937 - October 1944
(1 file)


Papers concerning the Official Secrets Act and Government work; and precautions to be observed in the case of invasion by the enemy, 16 November 1938 - 13 September 1944
(1 file)


Papers concerning a survey of French market for glass fibre plastics, 1964
(1 file)

Reports on business activity (Ref: D/Whes 6/67-72)

Notes on business activity for the period April 1949 - March 1950
(1 file)


Notes on business activity for the period April 1950 - March 1951
(1 file)


Notes on business activity for the period April 1951 - March 1952 [includes list of patents in force]
(2 files)


Notes on business activity for the period 1 April 1952 - 31 March 1953
(1 file)


Notes on busines activity for the period 1 April 1953 - 31 March 1954
(2 files)


Rough draft of notes on business activity for the period 1 April 1954 - 31 March 1955
(1 file)

Technical reports (Ref: D/Whes 7/1-20)

Comments by A.G. Grant on a survey of the gas industry and reconstruction of 3 April 1941 by E.V. Evans, 11 July 1941
(1 file)


Report, with drawings and photographs, on the construction of and firing trial on an experimental model of the A22 Welded Turret, 29 July 1941
(1 file)


Notes on Holmes Static Ammonia Washer at Rochdale, n.d. [c.1946]
(1 paper)


Report on the technical literature on electro-precipitation with respect to design features and practice, 5 May 1947
(1 file)


Strain Gage Survey around the Supports of a 48 ft Hortonsphere, report by L.P. Zick and C.E. Carlson, Research Department, Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, January 1948
(1 file)


[Enclosed in D/Whes 7/5] report on Distortions in the shell of a Horizontal Storage Tank by D.E. Larson, December 1934; and a report and drawing on horizontal cylindrical tanks on end supports by H.C. Boardman, 1932 and 29 December 1941
(1 file)


Report of Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc. 207 East Ohio Street, Chicago, on Horton Floating Roofs for vertical steel storage tanks, 10 April 1948
(1 booklet)


Monograph on the design, manufacture and maintenance of weighbridges 1891-1937 by W.H. Stairmand, 14 October 1949
(1 file)


Copy of the first interim report by W.H. Pearce for the National Boiler & General Insurance Co. Ltd., Manchester, on the failure of oil storage tank no.C11 at Esso Petroleum Installation, Fawley, Hants., 7 May 1952
(1 file)


Draft report by National Boiler and General Insurance Co.., Manchester, with supporting photographs and drawings on the failure of oil storage tank no.C11 at Esso Petroleum Installation, Fawley, Hants., 4 July 1952
(2 files)


Amended sections used in preparing the draft report on the failure of oil storage tank no.C11, Fawley, n.d. [July 1952]
(1 file)


Report and the results of tests of the National Boiler and General Insurance Co. Ltd., Manchester, on the construction by Whessoe Ltd., Darlington, of oil storage tank no.C11 at Esso Petroleum Installation, Fawley, Hants., August 1952
(1 file)


Drawings and photographs to accompany the D//Whes 7/14 report, August 1952
(1 file)


Details of amendments to the original draft report on the investigation into the failure of C11 tank at Fawley, 8-9 September 1952
(1 file)


Detailed report by the National Boiler and General Insurance Co. Ltd., on the material, construction and failure of oil storage tank no.4112 at Eastham Installation, Stanlow Refinery, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, 24 October 1955


Drawings and photographs to accompany the report of 24 October 1955 on the failure of oil storage tank no.4112
(1 file)


Failure of Large Welded Oil Storage Tank (no.C11, Esso Petroleum Installation, Fawley, Hants.) published by the National Boiler & General Insurance Co. Ltd., October 1954
(1 volume, paper bound)


Operating and maintenance manual of the liquifield petroleum gas storage installation erected for the West Midlands Gas Board at Coleshill, n.d. [c.1963]
(1 file, plastic bound)

Technical drawings (Ref: D/Whes 8/1-34)

Drawings of locomotive engines; a driving wheel of the Shildon Works Co. (16 February 1848); boilers; coal wagons; a merchandise carriage; a corn wagon [1847]; a horse box; a cattle carriage; a carriage truck; a Leeds & Thirsk Railway pattern coke truck (April 1849); railway carriages including the first composite passenger coach introduced on the Stockton & Darlington Railway, (1830-31); a crane; and plans of property in Darlington belonging to Alfred Kitching, (1853, 1857), c.1830-61
(1 folder)


Profile drawing of an express engine [no.130] constructed by Robert Stephenson & Co. for the Midland Railway, 1852 [with note "This Engine is still at work 1886 but is No.4 has been rebuilt with larger boiler"], n.d.
(1 paper)


Drawing by Thomas Whitwell of locomotive engine and tender built by A. Kitching, Hope Town Engine Works, Darlington, 1855 Scale: 1.5 inches to 1 foot [1:8]
(1 paper, coloured)


Profile drawings of types of locomotive engines in use on the North Eastern Railway, 11 March 1873 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:96]
(1 paper, 87cm x 42cm, coloured)


Drawing of an 18 inch wedge valve, for C. Ianson Son & Co., engineers, Darlington, 1 May 1874 (1 plan, paper, 94cm x 64cm, coloured) 8/6 Profile drawing by Theodore West of the Swift locomotive engine [built in 1833 for the Stockton & Darlington Railway], [13 April 1880]
(1 paper)


Engraving of the locomotive engine Lion built by Foster Rastrick and Co., Stourbridge, for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. [trial trip at Horesdale, Pennsylvania, 8 August 1829, with attached newspaper account]. Account and engraving collated by Theodore West, Darlington, June 1881
(1 paper)


Drawing of elevation of principals and cast iron school work for additional roofing at Thirsk Station (co. York) by C. Ianson Son & Co., engineers, Darlington, 23 - 27 January 1882 Scale: 1.5 inches to 1 foot [1:8]
(1 plan, paper, 100cm x 69cm)


Profile drawing of a locomotive engine for the New York Elevated Rail Road by M.N. Forney, 1882 [with note that 134 of these engines were working on the Elevated Rail Road in 1886]
(1 paper)


Drawing of a 42cwt weighing machine on wheels by C. Ianson Son & Co., engineers, Darlington, 2 July 1884 No scale given
(1 plan, paper, 72cm x 51cm)


Drawing of top plan and sections of 15 inch diameter disc valve, 29 April 1887 Scale: 3 inches to 1 foot [1:4]
(1 plan, paper, 92cm x 64cm, coloured)


Plan, section and elevation of a 10in disc valve, n.d. [c.1887] Scale: 3 inches to 1 foot [1:4]
(1 plan, paper, 71cm x 53cm, coloured)


Plan and elevation of the Whessoe - Munich carburetting apparatus no.3, 11 November 1897
(1 plan, paper, 66cm x 99cm, coloured)


Drawings and descriptions of the Whessoe apparatus for preventing the freezing of gas pipes and street lamp services; and the Whessoe - Munich carburetting apparatus, 1895 - 1899
(1 file)


Drawings of details of carriages for the Aalborg Works of the Danish Gas Co., n.d. [c.1900] Scale: 2 inches to 1 foot [1:6]
(1 plan, paper, 102cm x 68cm, coloured)


Plan and elevation of test gas works, n.d. [c.1900] Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, paper, 103cm x 69cm, coloured)


Drawing of sections of cast iron lining for Lothbury Station for the Great Northern and City Railway, with longitudinal and transverse sections of joints, n.d. [c.1900] Scales: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24]; 6 inches to 1 foot [1:2]
(1 plan, cloth, 92cm x 52cm)


Drawing and elevation of engine house roof at Burdon Pumping Station for Sunderland Waterworks, 22 April 1904 Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24]
(1 plan, paper, 103cm x 69cm, coloured)


The Neilson - Smith-Rewse Tankless Gasholder. Correspondence and working drawings used in preparing the specification, 1 November 1923 - 15 January 1924 [also includes descriptive memorandum about the scheme, 1 May 1950; and a draft for financing a "phosphate scheme", 21 September 1874)
(1 file)


The Neilson - Smith-Rewse Tankless Gasholder. Drawings showing details of seal, bottom of holder and bottom spring roller; modified arrangment of seal; float guide and float; roof principals and method of cross bracing; and joist, butt straps etc., 7 January 1924 Scales: various
(2 papers, 99cm x 66cm, and 53cm, x 57cm)


Copy of sectional plans and elevations for a combined road and rail weighbridge, 18 feet x 8 feet, 26 February 1927 No scale given
(1 plan, paper, 93cm x 66cm)


Copy of drawings of rails, blocks, chairs etc. used on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway made by Robert Stephenson & Co. Ltd., Locomotive Works, Darlington, 19 April 1929 Scale: 1.5 inches to 1 foot [1:8]
(1 plan, paper, 101cm x 67cm)


Copy of drawing of general arrangment of 5 lever road weighbridge, 30 feet x 8 feet, n.d. [1931] Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, paper, 109cm x 66cm)


General arrangement of dial indicator to weight 50 tons, 29 May 1934 Scales: 3 inches to 1 foot [1:4]; 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1:32]
(1 plan, paper, 102cm x 68cm, coloured)


Copy of plan, section and elevation of a weighbridge 8 feet x 3 feet 2 inches, 26 September 1934 Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, paper, 74cm x 62cm)


Copy of plan, section and elevation of a road weighbridge to weigh 30 tons, 27 December 1934 Scale: 1/2 inch to 1 foot [1:24]
(1 plan, paper, 69cm x 53cm)


Drawing of the general arrangement of the Whessoe self-contained road weighbridge, 20 feet x 8 feet, n.d. [1932?] Scale: 3/8 inch to 1 foot [1:32]
(1 plan, paper, 61cm x 35cm, coloured)


Copy of plan and elevations of a 100,000 lb. tank for Thomas Hedley and Co. Ltd., Trafford Park Plant, Manchester, n.d. [1930s] Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, paper, 99cm x 71cm)


Drawing of details of roof of extension of the exhauster house of the Redheugh Works of the Newcastle & Gateshead Gas Co. [order no.8611], n.d. Scale: 3/4 inch to 1 foot [1:16]
(1 plan, linen, 113cm x 72cm, coloured)


Drawings of the W. W-D electro-detarrer central electrode system, figs. 1 & 3, n.d.
(4 papers)


Drawing and section of the Whessoe electro-detarrer incorporating English Electric high tension generating plant, n.d. No scale given
(1 plan, paper, 97cm x 68cm, coloured)


Drawings of elevations and sections of a three lift gasholder and guide framing n.d. Scales: 1/4 inch to 1 foot [1:48]; 1.5 inches to 1 foot [1:8]
(1 plan, cloth, 66cm x 98cm)