Business archive of Joseph Adamson & Co arranged into series relating to accounting, payroll, sales, orders, estimates, crane production, electrical coil testing, drawing office, works, personnel, advertising, letter books, personal papers of the founders and records of associated companies. The archive consists of books, journals, drawings, sketches, correspondence, reports, plans, manuals, advertisements, brochures, printing blocks, newspaper cuttings and photographs. Business archive of Joseph Adamson & Company 1858-1995
Company archive of Linotype and Machinery Limited, its predecessor companies the Linotype Company Limited and the Machinery Trust Limited, and a variety of subsidiary companies responsible for manufacturing or selling composing and printing machinery or supplying consumables required by the printing trades. The collection consists of: Articles of Association, deed and mortgage registers, minutes of various meetings, employment records, stocks and share records, customer order books, correspondence, operation and service manuals, Linotype & Machinery machine registers, typeface specimen books, trade literature and brochures, various in-house publications (L&M News, The Grapevine, Linotype Notes and The Linotype Record), a collection of bound patents for machines and resulting improvements to them registered both in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. The collection also includes copies of documents relating to operational agreements with the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of New York. Business records from Linotype & Machinery Ltd of Broadheath, Altrincham 1860-1983
3 archival boxes. The material includes fabric prints of a number of trademarks owned by John Noble and A. S. Henry. There are also a number of letters between trademark agents and merchants requesting use of trademarks or for merchants to stop using marks similar to existing trademarks. Collection of papers relating to John Noble Limited. 1893-1910