Collection GB 0074 CLC/B/227-163 - SILLS, Edwin Robert (d 1943)

Two production units.

GB 0074 CLC/B/227-163 1901-1920 Collection Two production units. Sills , Edwin Robert , d 1943 , watch and chronometer finisher

Edwin Robert Sills (d 1943) was a watch and chronometer finisher of 21 Foyle Road, Tottenham. His father, William Sills, was a noted finisher of marine chronometers; his grandfather, also William Sills, was a Coventry watchmaker who came to London in 1840 and took up marine chronometer finishing. When demand for marine chronometers fell off after the First World War, Edwin Sills turned to watch and pocket chronometer finishing, producing work for Victor Kullberg in particular.

At the time of the 1901 census, Edwin Sills was working with his father as a watch finisher from their home at 31 Cressington Road, Stoke Newington. By 1942/3, and almost certainly earlier, he was working at 21 Foyle Road, Tottenham.

These records were purchased by the Clockmakers' Company at an auction of the library of Professor David Torrens of Dublin. The Clockmakers' Company deposited them in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1973, together with the archives of other watch and clockmakers, as follows: Victor Kullberg, watch and chronometer maker of Islington; Joseph Preston and Sons, watch, clock and chronometer makers, of Prescott, Lancashire; and Heinrich Otto's lecture notes on watchmaking. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Job order books of Edwin Robert Sills, watch and chronometer finisher.

Two volumes.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

CLC/L/CD for the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.

See Horological Journal, vol 85, June 1943, for an obituary of Edwin Sills.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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These records were purchased by the Clockmakers' Company at an auction of the library of Professor David Torrens of Dublin. The Clockmakers' Company deposited them in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1973, together with the archives of other watch and clockmakers, as follows: Victor Kullberg, watch and chronometer maker of Islington; Joseph Preston and Sons, watch, clock and chronometer makers, of Prescott, Lancashire; and Heinrich Otto's lecture notes on watchmaking. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Job order books of Edwin Robert Sills, watch and chronometer finisher.

Two volumes.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

• anglais

• latin

English

CLC/L/CD for the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais