John Swire & Sons Ltd archive
The collection comprises the bulk of known surviving material stored in the London Office of John Swire & Sons, covering the development of the firm from about 1870 to 1982. The collection is not complete, due mainly to bomb damage suffered during World War II. There is also a paucity of Eastern rec...
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1869 - 1983 |
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Subcollection
238
China Navigation Company Property Letters
170
Butterfield & Swire China and Japan
160
Hong Kong General Letters
92
Shanghai General Letters
57
Butterfield & Swire Property Letters
56
General Correspondence
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51
House Accounts Letters
49
China Navigation Company Ships Plans (Scans)
48
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46
The Weekly, staff newspaper
45
Butterfield and Swire General Correspondence
41
Native Staff Letters
36
China Navigation Company London Accounts Letters
35
China Navigation Company Property
32
Eastern Staff Letters
32
Refinery Letters
31
John Swire and Sons Letters In: From Butterfield & Swire
30
London Director's Political Correspondence
25
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Legal Papers
23
Refinery General Letters
21
China Navigation Co Australia Trade Letters
19
Butterfield and Swire Legal Documents
18
John Swire & Sons `P' China
17
Assorted Publications, Papers and/or Recollections collated for Research purposes, often collated in 'Miscellaneous' files by JS&S
16
Butterfield and Swire Accounts Letters
16
China Navigation Company Eastern Accounts
16
China Navigation company Requisition Accounts
16
Dockyard Accounts Letters
16
John Swire and Sons Out Letters
16
Partners' and Directors' Letters
15
John Swire and Sons Business Reviews, Reports and Statements
15
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Accounts
14
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou]Trading Papers
14
China Navigation Company Eastern Accounts Letters
14
John Swire & Sons Hong Kong: China and Japan
14
John Swire & Sons Letters `P' Inland
14
Shanghai Private Letters
14
Swire News
14
Taikoo Sugar Refinery General Letters
13
Alfred Holt & Co
13
China Navigation Company Eastern General Letters
13
John Swire and Sons Deeds and Legal Papers
13
Yokohama
12
Accounts Letters
12
Australia Japan Container Line Correspondence
12
Butterfield and Swire Accounts
12
Casualties N-Z
12
Chefoo [Yantai]
12
Coast Boats Ownery and China Navigation Co Coastal Steamers Accounts
12
John Swire & Sons Sundry Correspondence In
12
John Swire and Sons Property
12
London Cash Books
12
Shanghai Master File
12
Sugar Refinery Letters
12
Sundry Correspondence
11
Floating Staff Letters
11
Shanghai Accounts Letters
11
Shanghai Property Title Deeds
11
Shore Staff Letters
11
Swire Pty General Correspondence
10
Balance Sheets
10
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou]Property Papers
10
Butterfield and Swire Property Letters
10
Ningpo [Ningbo]
10
Orient Paint, Colour & Varnish Co Letters
10
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Co Legal and Organisation Papers
10
Tientsin Lighter Company Accounts
10
Tientsin [Tianjin]
9
China Navigation Company Deeds and Legal Papers
9
Coast Boats Ownery Casualties
9
Discovery: In-Flight Magazine
9
Hong Kong Accounts Letters
9
John Swire and Sons Personal Papers
9
Post-war development of China
9
Staff Correspondence during War time and Internment
9
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Accounts
9
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Property
9
War Time Staff Records
8
Amoy [Xiamen]
8
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou] Trade Agreements
8
Coast Boats Ownery Routine Papers
8
Company Journals
8
Kiukiang [Jujiang]
8
National Dock Labour Corporation
8
Newchang [Yingkou]
8
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Accounts Letters
7
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou] General Development
7
China Navigation Company Journals
7
Formation of Limited Company
7
Japan Accounts Vouchers
7
Nanking [Nanjing]
7
Orient Paint, Colour and Varnish Co Legal Papers
7
Provident Fund Receipts
7
Tientsin Lighter Co General Correspondence
6
Alfred Holt & Co Letters
6
Butterfield & Swire Staff Endowment Assurance Scheme
6
China Navigation Company London Correspondence
6
China Navigation Company Staff
6
Hankow [Hankou]
6
John Swire & Sons `P' Inland
6
Minutes
6
Provident Fund Accounts
6
Refinery Property Letters
6
Swire & Maclaine Legal Papers
6
Taikoo Chinese Navigation Co Accounts
5
Annual Reports
5
Board Papers
5
China Navigation Company London Accounts Books
5
Coal Contracts Correspondence
5
John Swire & Sons Board Papers
5
Miscellaneous
5
National Dock Labour Corporation Minutes and Agreements
5
Overseas Containers Limited
5
SS CHEFOO
5
Staff Letters
5
Steamship Companies Papers and Annual Reports.
5
Swatow [Shantou]
5
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Property Letters
4
Accounting and Finance Papers
4
Agreements with Scott's Shipbuilders
4
Alfred Holt & Company Letters
4
Annual Reports and Accounts
4
Butterfield & Swire Staff Papers
4
China Navigation Company Accounts
4
China Navigation Company Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts
4
China Navigation Company Minute Books and Registers
4
China Navigation Company Tonnage
4
Chinkiang [Zhenjiang]
4
Copies of Minutes and Correspondence associated with legal agreements
4
Correspondence between John Swire & Sons London and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai and Butterfield & Swire Tientsin
4
Correspondence between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai and Tientsin
4
Director in the East: J K Swire 1935, J S Scott 1936
4
French Concession
4
General Agents Agreements
4
Harper Gilfillan & Co
4
Interportals and Minutes
4
Investment Papers
4
Kowloon Pool Correspondence
4
London Journals
4
London Ledgers
4
Photographs
4
Postponement of Payment
4
Press Cuttings
4
Staff Pay-Off receipts. File labelled 'China Closure Staff Pay'
4
Straits Steamship Co
4
Taikoo Dockyard Staff Miscellaneous
4
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Property Records
4
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Accounts Letters
4
Telegrams from the East
4
Wuhu
3
'Native Staff' Letters
3
Agreements with Parson's Marine Steam Turbine Co.
3
Australia New Zealand Eastern Shipping Conference Letters (ANZESC)
3
Australia New Zealand Eastern Shipping Conference Minutes (ANZESC)
3
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co, Ltd Accounts Letters
3
Butterfield & Swire reports on examinations of title deeds
3
Cathay Pacific Provident Fund
3
China Navigation Company Accounts Letters
3
China Navigation Company Board Papers and Minutes
3
China Navigation Company Cash Books and Current Accounts
3
China Navigation Company Floating Staff Master Files
3
China Navigation Company Voyage and Incident Reports
3
Coast Boats Ownery Vouchers
3
Conditions of Service
3
Correspondence
3
Correspondence between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai
3
Directors Conference
3
Early Partnership Agreements
3
Eastern Accounts
3
Foochow [Fuzhou]
3
Frigmobile Correspondence
3
John Swire & Sons Purchase Agreements
3
Legal Papers and solicitors accounts
3
Memorandum and Articles of Association
3
New Guinea Australia Line Correspondence
3
Outward Staff
3
Papers concerning Butterfield & Swire Japan property
3
Personal correspondence of JR Masson
3
Private Office Journals
3
Refinery Accounts Letters
3
SS SWATOW
3
Share Certificates
3
Shares
3
Souvenir menus
3
Staff Correspondence
3
Staff Records
3
Swire Group Facts Pamphlets
3
Swire Properties Annual Reports
3
Tientsin Lighter Company and Alfred Holt
3
Tonnage
3
Transfer of Hong Kong Property
2
Accounts
2
Agreements with Kort Propulsion Co Ltd
2
Agreements with William Doxford & Sons
2
Alfred Holt & Company
2
Annual Reports and Accounts John Swire & Sons, Ltd
2
Articles of Association
2
Bangkok Wharf Syndicate
2
Bank Balances
2
Banking
2
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Minutes and Board Papers
2
Blyth Greene Jourdain Engineering Ltd
2
Butterfield & Swire Company Histories and Events
2
Butterfield & Swire Shipping Code Correspondence
2
Buying Agents Agreements
2
Casualties
2
China Navigation Company Pilgrim Trade Letters
2
China Navigation Company Records of Fleet
2
China Navigation Company Requisition Accounts Letters
2
China Navigation Company Ships Specifications
2
China Navigation Company Taxation Letters
2
China Take-over Deeds of Transfer
2
Correspondence between J H Scott and John (Jack) Swire
2
Correspondence between John Swire & Sons London and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai
2
Director in the East: Colin C Scott
2
Duro Holdings Agreements
2
Far East
2
Far East Oil Company
2
General Managers Agreements
2
Hankow Bund Development
2
Incorporation Documents Probo Limited
2
Investment Ledgers
2
Inward Staff
2
James Finlay & Co Ltd Annual Reports
2
John Swire & Sons Company Correspondence Files
2
John Swire & Sons Minute Books
2
John Swire & Sons, Ltd Board Minutes
2
Letters between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai
2
Letters from Law, Edkins and Robertson
2
London
2
London Petty Cash Books
2
Management Studies
2
Ministry of War Transport
2
Minutes of Australian Companies
2
Official report by Cyril Wray
2
Pool Agreement Books
2
Private Ledgers
2
Projects, Mergers and Subsidiaries
2
Provident Fund
2
Provident Fund Scheme Deeds and Rules
2
Publications
2
Red Hand Agreements
2
Refinery General
2
SS FOOCHOW
2
Shanghai Property
2
Share Registers
2
Shareholding
2
Sir John Robertson Masson Private Correspondence File, 1944-1945
2
Souvenir Certificates
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 34
2
Staff Outward
2
Staff Pension fund letters
2
Staff Service Conditions
2
Staff letters
2
Swire & Yuill Correspondence
2
Swire & Yuill Staff Papers
2
Swire Industries Minutes
2
Swire Pacific Offshore Conference
2
Swire Parcel Tankers Ltd
2
Swire and Maclaine Correspondence
2
Taikoo Chinese Navigation Co Accounts Letters
2
Taikoo Dockyard Eastern Staff Pensions
2
Taikoo Dockyard Staff Agreements
2
Taikoo Dockyard Staff Registers
2
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Minutes
2
Tientsin Lighter Company Accounts Letters
2
Tientsin Lighter Company Ledgers
2
Transwest Haulage Minutes and Board Papers
2
Wilkinson, Heywood and Clark Amalgamation
1
Adrian Swire Hong Kong Correspondence
1
Agreements on the formation of Orient Paint and Varnish Co
1
Audit Reports produced re sale of Stock
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Other Registers
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Registers of Shares
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain Holdings Pty Ltd
1
Business Plans
1
Butterfield & Swire Japan Minutes
1
Butterfield & Swire Japan Property
1
Butterfield & Swire Managers Reports
1
Butterfield & Swire Properties Books
1
Butterfield & Swire War Claims
1
Butterfield and Swire Property
1
Butterfield and Swire Staff
1
C: North Coast Ports
1
CNCo General Tonnage Correspondence
1
Cannon Street
1
Canton
1
Cathay Pacific Air Caterers
1
Cathay Pacific Schedules
1
Charles Collingwood Roberts
1
Chief Container Service Legal Papers
1
China Navigation Co Insurance documents
1
China Navigation Co Ships' Log Books, Reports and Records of Fleet
1
China Navigation Co Tonnage and Ships Specifications
1
China Navigation Company Advertising Material
1
China Navigation Company Chairman's Statements
1
China Navigation Company Local Letters
1
China Navigation Company Managers' Correspondence
1
China Navigation Company Photographs
1
China Navigation Company Ships Plans
1
China Navigation Company Ships' Log Books
1
Chungking [Chongqing]
1
Clyde Shipping Co Ltd
1
Craft Built Books, 1
1
Eastern Staff
1
Equipment Files
1
Euphrates: Proposed Merger between the Taikoo Dockyard and Kowloon Dock
1
Fares Files
1
General Correspondence.
1
Half-yearly accounts
1
Hong Kong
1
Hong Kong Aeronautical Engineering Company [HAECO]
1
Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company Ltd
1
Hongkong United Dockyards Limited
1
IMCOS Ltd
1
IMCOS Marine Ltd Minutes
1
Ichang [Yichang]
1
John Swire and Sons Annual Reports and Accounts
1
John Swire and Sons Board Decisions
1
Letters In: From Lorimer, Marwood & Rome
1
London General Shipowners Society
1
Memoranda and Articles of Association WS Bailey & Co
1
New Aircraft
1
Notebooks
1
Oceanroutes (Europe) Ltd
1
Orient Paint, Colour and Varnish Co Staff
1
Panocean Anco Ltd Annual Reports
1
Purchase Agreements and Leases
1
Recruitment
1
Registers of Directors
1
Route Licensing
1
SWIRE PACIFIC
1
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
1
Shareholding Papers
1
Shares Registers and information
1
Ship's Files
1
Ships and Machinery Specifications
1
Souvenir Passenger Lists
1
Speeches
1
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 35
1
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 36
1
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 37
1
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 38
1
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 39
1
Staff Lists
1
Staff Structure Charts and Lists
1
Sundry
1
Swire Blyth Annual Reports
1
Swire Group Book
1
Swire Industries Correspondence
1
Swire Pty Board Papers
1
Swire Pty Staff
1
Taikoo Chinese Navigation Company Tonnage Letters
1
Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co Staff Letters
1
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Departmental Annual Reports
1
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Shareholder Registers
1
Taikoo Shipping Gazette
1
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Share Registers
1
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Staff
1
Traffic Rights and Policy Correspondence
1
UK/Japan Correspondence
1
Varnarch Ltd
1
War Time Political Letters
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