Collection of mainly 19th and some 20th century records of the cotton and rubber business Charles Macintosh & Co, consisting mainly of indentures and legal agreements, and gathered as part of the Dunlop Archive Project.

The papers are mainly a series of property deeds dating to 1806-1918, and relating to Macintosh dealings with other Manchester firms including H. H. Birley, John Rylands and Dunlop. There is also a later copy of the partnership indenture between Birley and Macintosh signed in 1831; a plan of the Birley factory in Manchester dated 1842; a sales ledger for the Macintosh company for 1845 to 1926.

Further material includes a packet of 20th century documents comprising a handwritten list of a collection of Dunlop and Macintosh documents and including many photographs of these records. This includes material relating to dealings with the New Eccles Rubber Works Ltd, the Shrewsbury ST & Chilliner Tyre Co Ltd, as well as a company history from 1904, amongst other items.

A few documents and booklets relate to shareholding, Dunlop Ltd and its subsidiaries. This includes ‘the Transmission Belt Handbook’ Macinlop Ltd, Manchester, c1920-30s, two copies of the ‘Hose Handbook’ produced by Macinlop, two documents and a copy of the Memorandum and Articles for the Dunlop Rubber Company Limited, June 1959.

A small number of items relate to the Macintosh family, including a photograph of a plaque for Charles Macintosh, a booklet in memory of Councillor John Macintosh of Halifax dated 1920, and a manuscript memoire of Charles Macintosh, dated 1847. This may relate to George Macintosh’s published ‘Biographical Memoir of ... Charles Macintosh, F.R.S., of Campsie and Dunchattan. Compiled and edited from authentic documents’ (Glasgow: W.G. Blackie & Co, 1847). The author (son of Charles Macintosh) and date would support this, but a later note attached suggests that it relates to another article.