Fonds BD26 - Williams Hudson Group

15 shelves

BD26 1869-1981 Fonds 15 shelves Williams Hudson Group

Williams Hudson Group Limited is the parent holding company for a number of companies, and was incorporated on 30 September 1936, bringing together Samuel Williams and Sons Ltd and John Hudson Ltd, and their subsidiaries. This group went on to acquire more companies, covering the following aspects of trade: international transportation and wharf ownership, road transportation, property dealing, motor retail, finance, hotels and building, engineering and metalwork, fuel distribution, storage and manufacture.

Williams Hudson Group went into liquidation and was sold to an asset stripper in the 1980s, who divided up and sold off the various companies that comprised it. The majority of the companies whose archives are contained within this collection were part of the group, but some are believed to be other companies, which had been taken over by the asset stripper and whose files had become mixed with those of the Williams Hudson Group.

The material contained within this collection was rescued by employees of Samuel Williams and Sons from being thrown away by the asset stripper, and was subsequently donated to London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre.

This collection comprises minute books, registers of members, account books, plans and photographs of the businesses and companies that formed the Williams Hudson Group (1869-1981). For a full list of material within this collection follow this link: http://www.lbbd.gov.uk/MuseumsAndHeritage/BoroughArchivesandLocalStudies/Documents/ALSWilliamsHudsonGroup.pdf

The collection has been arranged as received taking into consideration the format and chronology of material.

The material within this collection is open to research by appointment at the Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre. For further information about visiting the reading room please contact localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk or telephone 020 8227 2033.

Material within this collection can be reproduced at the discretion of the Borough Archivist. For further information about conditions governing reproduction please contact localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk or telephone 020 8227 2033.
English

For additional information on the content of this collection please contact localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk or telephone 020 8227 2033.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD (G), 2nd edition, 2001. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Catalogued in 2008. Description added to Aim25 in April 2014. Business records Williams Hudson Group Documents Information sources

The material contained within this collection was rescued by employees of Samuel Williams and Sons from being thrown away by the asset stripper, and was subsequently donated to London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre.

This collection comprises minute books, registers of members, account books, plans and photographs of the businesses and companies that formed the Williams Hudson Group (1869-1981). For a full list of material within this collection follow this link: http://www.lbbd.gov.uk/MuseumsAndHeritage/BoroughArchivesandLocalStudies/Documents/ALSWilliamsHudsonGroup.pdf

The collection has been arranged as received taking into consideration the format and chronology of material.

The material within this collection is open to research by appointment at the Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre. For further information about visiting the reading room please contact localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk or telephone 020 8227 2033.

Material within this collection can be reproduced at the discretion of the Borough Archivist. For further information about conditions governing reproduction please contact localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk or telephone 020 8227 2033.

• English

• Latin

English

For additional information on the content of this collection please contact localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk or telephone 020 8227 2033.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD (G), 2nd edition, 2001. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English