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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238
China Navigation Company Property Letters
170
Butterfield & Swire China and Japan
160
Hong Kong General Letters
109
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93
Shanghai General Letters
61
China Navigation Company Ships Plans (Scans)
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57
Butterfield & Swire Property Letters
56
General Correspondence
51
House Accounts Letters
49
Personal correspondence of JR Masson
46
The Weekly, staff newspaper
45
Butterfield and Swire General Correspondence
44
Annual Reports
41
Native Staff Letters
36
China Navigation Company London Accounts Letters
36
China Navigation Company Property
36
London Director's Political Correspondence
32
Eastern Staff Letters
32
John Swire and Sons Letters In: From Butterfield & Swire
32
Refinery Letters
28
Hong Kong Aeronautical Engineering Co Interim reports
26
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Legal Papers
25
Assorted Publications, Papers and/or Recollections collated for Research purposes, often collated in 'Miscellaneous' files by JS&S
23
Refinery General Letters
21
China Navigation Co Australia Trade Letters
20
Butterfield and Swire Legal Documents
19
China Navigation Company Eastern Accounts
19
Swire News
18
John Swire & Sons `P' China
18
John Swire and Sons Business Reviews, Reports and Statements
18
John Swire and Sons Property
18
Swire Pacific Limited Annual Reports
17
Butterfield and Swire Accounts Letters
17
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY
17
John Swire & Sons Hong Kong: China and Japan
16
Butterfield and Swire Accounts
16
China Navigation company Requisition Accounts
16
Dockyard Accounts Letters
16
John Swire and Sons Deeds and Legal Papers
16
John Swire and Sons Out Letters
16
Partners' and Directors' Letters
16
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Accounts
15
Alfred Holt & Co
15
John Swire & Sons Letters `P' Inland
15
OTHER ORGANISATIONS
15
Swire Group Book
14
BLYTH GREENE JOURDAIN & Co. LTD
14
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Annual Reports
14
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou]Trading Papers
14
China Navigation Company Deeds and Legal Papers
14
China Navigation Company Eastern Accounts Letters
14
John Swire & Sons Ltd archive
14
Shanghai Private Letters
14
Taikoo Sugar Refinery General Letters
14
The China Navigation Company Newsletters
13
China Navigation Company Eastern General Letters
13
JOHN SWIRE AND SONS LIMITED
13
John Swire & Sons Sundry Correspondence In
13
London Cash Books
13
Sundry Correspondence
13
Yokohama
12
Accounts Letters
12
Australia Japan Container Line Correspondence
12
BUTTERFIELD AND SWIRE
12
Casualties N-Z
12
Chefoo [Yantai]
12
Coast Boats Ownery and China Navigation Co Coastal Steamers Accounts
12
Floating Staff Letters
12
Shanghai Master File
12
Shore Staff Letters
12
Staff Letters
12
Sugar Refinery Letters
12
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Property
11
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Minutes and Board Papers
11
John Swire and Sons Annual Reports and Accounts
11
Orient Paint, Colour & Varnish Co Letters
11
Shanghai Accounts Letters
11
Shanghai Property Title Deeds
11
Sundry Old Partnership Papers
11
Swire Pty General Correspondence
11
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Co Legal and Organisation Papers
11
Tientsin Lighter Company Accounts
10
Balance Sheets
10
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou]Property Papers
10
Butterfield and Swire Property Letters
10
China Navigation Company Staff
10
Ningpo [Ningbo]
10
Staff Records
10
TAIKOO DOCKYARD AND ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED
10
Tientsin [Tianjin]
9
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Accounts
9
Coast Boats Ownery Casualties
9
Discovery: In-Flight Magazine
9
Hong Kong Accounts Letters
9
John Swire and Sons Personal Papers
9
Other Associated Companies
9
Post-war development of China
9
Ship's Files
9
Souvenir menus
9
Staff Correspondence during War time and Internment
9
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Accounts
9
War Time Staff Records
8
Amoy [Xiamen]
8
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou] Trade Agreements
8
China Navigation Company Accounts
8
China Navigation Company Advertising Material
8
Coast Boats Ownery Routine Papers
8
Company Journals
8
Early Partnership Agreements
8
Kiukiang [Jujiang]
8
National Dock Labour Corporation
8
Newchang [Yingkou]
8
ORIENT PAINT, COLOUR AND VARNISH COMPANY LIMITED
8
Orient Paint, Colour and Varnish Co Legal Papers
8
TAIKOO SUGAR REFINERY LIMITED
8
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Accounts Letters
8
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Particulars of Ships
7
Agreements with H I Butterfield
7
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co Annual Reports and Accounts
7
Board Papers
7
Butterfield & Swire Staff Papers
7
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou] General Development
7
China Navigation Co Publications and Photographs
7
China Navigation Company Journals
7
Formation of Limited Company
7
Japan Accounts Vouchers
7
Minutes
7
Nanking [Nanjing]
7
Offices at Suite A, Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, Middlesex
7
Provident Fund Accounts
7
Provident Fund Receipts
7
Publications
7
Share Certificates John Swire & Sons, Ltd
7
Swire Group Publications
7
Tientsin Lighter Co General Correspondence
6
Accounting and Finance Papers
6
Alfred Holt & Co Letters
6
B: River Ports
6
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Shares
6
Butterfield & Swire Staff Endowment Assurance Scheme
6
Butterfield and Swire Japan Staff
6
Butterfield and Swire Property
6
China Navigation Company Local Letters
6
China Navigation Company London Correspondence
6
Correspondence
6
Hankow [Hankou]
6
Hong Kong Aeronautical Engineering Company [HAECO]
6
John Swire & Sons Board Papers
6
John Swire & Sons `P' Inland
6
John Swire and Sons Limited Staff
6
Memorandum and Articles of Association
6
Refinery Property Letters
6
Steamship Companies Papers and Annual Reports.
6
Swire & Maclaine Legal Papers
6
Taikoo Chinese Navigation Co Accounts
5
A: South Coast Ports
5
Agreements on the formation of Orient Paint and Varnish Co
5
Articles of Association of Taikoo Sugar Ltd
5
Butterfield & Swire Japan
5
Butterfield and Swire Shanghai, Private Office Letters In
5
CATHAY PACIFIC
5
Cannon Street
5
Cathay Pacific Provident Fund
5
China Navigation Co Ships' Log Books, Reports and Records of Fleet
5
China Navigation Company London Accounts Books
5
China Navigation Company Promotional Material
5
Chinese Trademark and Registration Certificates
5
Coal Contracts Correspondence
5
Foreign Staff 'In and Out' Letterbooks
5
James Finlay & Co Ltd Annual Reports
5
John Swire & Sons Minute Books
5
John Swire & Sons, Ltd Board Minutes
5
Miscellaneous
5
National Dock Labour Corporation Minutes and Agreements
5
Newsletters
5
Overseas Containers Limited
5
Photographs
5
Press Cuttings
5
Red Hand Agreements
5
SS CHEFOO
5
SWIRE PACIFIC
5
Share Certificates
5
Swatow [Shantou]
5
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Publications and Company Histories
5
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Property Letters
5
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Property Records
5
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Staff
4
Agreements with Scott's Shipbuilders
4
Alfred Holt & Company Letters
4
Annual Reports and Accounts
4
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Registers of Members
4
Butterfield & Swire Articles of Association
4
C: North Coast Ports
4
Cathay Pacific Finance (Bermuda) Ltd
4
Charter and Requisition Agreements
4
China Navigation Co Tonnage and Ships Specifications
4
China Navigation Company Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts
4
China Navigation Company Minute Books and Registers
4
China Navigation Company Pilgrim Trade Letters
4
China Navigation Company Records of Fleet
4
China Navigation Company Tonnage
4
Chinkiang [Zhenjiang]
4
Conditions of Service
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
Finance Records
4
French Concession
4
General Agents Agreements
4
Harper Gilfillan & Co
4
Interportals and Minutes
4
Investment Papers
4
JOHN SWIRE & SONS AUSTRALIA
4
Kowloon Pool Correspondence
4
London Journals
4
London Ledgers
4
Pension Records
4
Postponement of Payment
4
SWIRE PACIFIC OFFSHORE
4
SWIRE PROPERTIES
4
Shares
4
Speeches
4
Staff Correspondence
4
Staff Pay-Off receipts. File labelled 'China Closure Staff Pay'
4
Straits Steamship Co
4
Taikoo Dockyard Staff Miscellaneous
4
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Accounts Letters
4
Telegrams from the East
4
UK/Bermuda files
4
Various Annual reports belonging to Geoffrey Pope
4
Wuhu
3
'Native Staff' Letters
3
Agreements with Parson's Marine Steam Turbine Co.
3
Articles of Association
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
Blyth Greene Jourdain International (1978) Limited Reports
3
Blyth Greene Jourdain International Ltd Reports
3
Butterfield & Swire Company Histories and Events
3
Butterfield & Swire Shipping Code Correspondence
3
Butterfield & Swire reports on examinations of title deeds
3
Cash Books
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 Ships Specifications
3
China Navigation Company Voyage and Incident Reports
3
China Take-over Deeds of Transfer
3
Coast Boats Ownery Vouchers
3
Corporate Identity and Branding
3
Correspondence between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai
3
Davie Boag & Co
3
Directors Conference
3
Eastern Accounts
3
Filing system of associated companies kept by Geoffrey Pope
3
Foochow [Fuzhou]
3
Frigmobile Correspondence
3
Hongkong United Dockyards Limited
3
IMCOS Ltd
3
John Swire & Sons Purchase Agreements
3
Journals
3
Ledgers
3
Legal Papers and solicitors accounts
3
Letters from W Lang, J H Scott
3
London Petty Cash Books
3
MISCELLANEOUS
3
New Guinea Australia Line Correspondence
3
Outward Staff
3
Papers concerning Butterfield & Swire Japan property
3
Private Office Journals
3
Projects, Mergers and Subsidiaries
3
Promotional Material
3
Property Prospectuses
3
Refinery Accounts Letters
3
SS SWATOW
3
SWIRE AND MACLAINE LIMITED
3
SWIRE BLYTH
3
Shanghai Property
3
Share Certificates - Subsidiary Companies
3
Shipping Conference Correspondence
3
Staff Service Conditions
3
Swire & Yuill Legal Papers
3
Swire Group Facts Pamphlets
3
Swire Industries Correspondence
3
Swire Properties Annual Reports
3
Swire Pty Board Papers
3
Swire and Maclaine Correspondence
3
TAIKOO CHINESE NAVIGATION COMPANY
3
THE COAST BOATS OWNERY
3
TIENTSIN LIGHTER COMPANY
3
Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co Staff Letters
3
Taikoo Dockyard Staff Agreements
3
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Letters
3
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Minutes
3
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Property
3
The Australian and Eastern Navigation Company Ltd Prospectus'
3
Tientsin Lighter Company and Alfred Holt
3
Tonnage
3
Transfer of Hong Kong Property
3
Transwest Haulage Pty Ltd
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
Assorted reports, minutes and publications belonging to Geoffrey Pope
2
Audit Reports produced re sale of Stock
2
Australian Minutes and Board Papers
2
Bangkok Wharf Syndicate
2
Bank Balances
2
Banking
2
Bermuda Files
2
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Registers of Shares
2
Blyth Greene Jourdain (Trading) Ltd
2
Blyth Greene Jourdain Engineering Ltd
2
Blyth Greene Jourdain Investments Ltd
2
Blyth Greene Jourdain Pension Fund Accounts
2
Blythe Greene Jourdain Investments Ltd Reports
2
Blythe Greene Jourdain Investments Ltd Shares
2
Butterfield & Swire Industries
2
Butterfield & Swire Japan Legal Papers
2
Butterfield & Swire Properties Books
2
Butterfield and Swire Staff
2
Buying Agents Agreements
2
Casualties
2
Charles Collingwood Roberts
2
China Navigation Casualties Correspondence
2
China Navigation Company Managers' Correspondence
2
China Navigation Company Requisition Accounts Letters
2
China Navigation Company Ships Accounts Letters
2
China Navigation Company Taxation Letters
2
Company Histories
2
Copies of London Stock Exchange published reports
2
Correspondence between J H Scott and John (Jack) Swire
2
Correspondence between John Swire & Sons London and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai
2
D: Other Places
2
Director in the East: Colin C Scott
2
Duro Holdings Agreements
2
Eastern Staff
2
Far East
2
Far East Oil Company
2
Fleet and Facilities
2
Frigmobile
2
General Managers Agreements
2
Hankow Bund Development
2
IMCOS Marine Ltd Minutes
2
Incorporation Documents Probo Limited
2
Investment Ledgers
2
Inward Staff
2
Japanese Staff General Correspondence
2
John Swire & Sons Company Correspondence Files
2
John Swire & Sons Pty
2
John Swire and Sons Board Decisions
2
John Swire and Sons Letters In
2
John Swire and Sons Savings Fund - Ledgers
2
Letters In: From Lorimer, Marwood & Rome
2
Letters between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai
2
Letters from Law, Edkins and Robertson
2
London
2
Management Studies
2
Memoranda and Articles of Association WS Bailey & Co
2
Ministry of War Transport
2
Minutes of Australian Companies
2
Official report by Cyril Wray
2
Panocean Anco
2
Panocean Anco Limited
2
Pool Agreement Books
2
Prestwick Leasing Ltd
2
Private Ledgers
2
Provident Fund
2
Provident Fund Scheme Deeds and Rules
2
Publications and Promotional Material
2
Refinery General
2
SS FOOCHOW
2
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
2
Share Registers
2
Shareholding
2
Sir John Robertson Masson Private Correspondence File, 1944-1945
2
Souvenir Certificates
2
Staff
2
Staff Inward
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 34
2
Staff Outward
2
Staff Pension fund letters
2
Staff Structure Charts and Lists
2
Staff letters
2
Swire & Maclaine Minutes
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 Pty Minutes and Board Papers
2
Taikoo Chinese Navigation Co Accounts Letters
2
Taikoo Dockyard Eastern Staff Pensions
2
Taikoo Dockyard Staff Registers
2
Taikoo Shipping Gazette
2
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Contracts
2
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Staff
2
Taikoo Wharf and Godown Company
2
The Australian and Eastern Navigation Company Ltd
2
The China Navigation Company
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
AM Young & Co Ltd
1
Accident Reports
1
Adrian Swire Hong Kong Correspondence
1
Agreements
1
Blackwell Bearings Ltd
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co Ltd Pension Fund
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Probate Registers
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Notices
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Other Registers
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co. Ltd Property Records and Deeds
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain (Trading) Ltd Minute Books
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain Holdings Pty Ltd
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain International (1978) Limited
1
Blyth Greene Jourdain International Limited
1
Blyth, Greene, Jourdain & Co Investments Articles of Association
1
Blythe Greene Jourdain Trading Ltd Annual Reports
1
Business Plans
1
Butterfield & Swire Company Histories and Publications
1
Butterfield & Swire India
1
Butterfield & Swire India Legal Papers
1
Butterfield & Swire Japan Matson Navigation Co Correspondence
1
Butterfield & Swire Japan Minutes
1
Butterfield & Swire Japan Property
1
Butterfield & Swire Managers Reports
1
Butterfield & Swire Russia Legal Papers
1
Butterfield & Swire Shipping Code
1
Butterfield & Swire War Claims
1
Butterfield and Swire Pensions
1
Butterfield and Swire Promotional Material
1
CNCo Board Minutes
1
CNCo General Tonnage Correspondence
1
Canton
1
Cathay Pacific Air Caterers
1
Cathay Pacific Convair 880-22M VR-HFZ Bombing
1
Cathay Pacific Monthly Reports
1
Cathay Pacific Schedules
1
Chief Container Service
1
Chief Container Service Legal Papers
1
China Navigation Co Insurance documents
1
China Navigation Company Board Papers
1
China Navigation Company Chairman's Statements
1
China Navigation Company Photographs
1
China Navigation Company Ships Plans
1
China Navigation Company Ships' Log Books
1
China Trade Association
1
Chungking [Chongqing]
1
Clyde Shipping Co Ltd
1
Company Publications Australia
1
Concessionary Travel Correspondence
1
Craft Built Books, 1
1
Equipment Files
1
Euphrates: Proposed Merger between the Taikoo Dockyard and Kowloon Dock
1
Fairplay International Shipping Journal
1
Fares Files
1
General Correspondence.
1
Group Public Affairs
1
Half-yearly accounts
1
Hong Kong
1
Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company Ltd
1
House Staff Letters
1
IMCOS Ltd Accounts
1
IMCOS Ltd Minute Books
1
Ichang [Yichang]
1
Jackson's Australian Meats Ltd
1
James Finlay & Co Ltd
1
Japanese Staff Loans
1
Japanese Staff Tours
1
John Swire and Sons Records of Events
1
Legal Documents
1
London General Shipowners Society
1
New Aircraft
1
New Guinea Australia Line
1
Notebooks
1
Ocean Transport & Trading Limited
1
Oceanroutes (Europe) Ltd
1
Orient Paint, Colour and Varnish Co Registers
1
Orient Paint, Colour and Varnish Co Reports
1
Orient Paint, Colour and Varnish Co Staff
1
Pacific Air Maintenance and Supply [PAMAS]
1
Panocean Anco Ltd Annual Reports
1
Panocean Anco Ltd Minutes
1
Panocean Anco Minutes
1
Prestwick Ayr Services Ltd
1
Probo Limited
1
Project Planning
1
Purchase Agreements and Leases
1
Recruitment
1
Registers of Directors
1
Route Correspondence
1
Route Licensing
1
Shareholding Papers
1
Shares Registers and information
1
Ships and Machinery Specifications
1
Souvenir Passenger Lists
1
Speeches and Publications
1
Staff Contracts and Registers
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
Statistics, Schedules and Analyses
1
Sundry
1
Swire & Maclaine Minutes of Annual General Meetings, 1971-1983; Minutes of Direcotrs' Meetings, 1956-1983
1
Swire & Maclaine Shares
1
Swire Blyth Annual Reports
1
Swire Blyth Publications
1
Swire Cold Storage Pty
1
Swire Graduate Trainee Scheme
1
Swire Pacific Offshore Publications
1
Swire Pty Legal Papers
1
Swire Pty Property
1
Swire Pty Publications and Promotional Material
1
Swire Pty Staff
1
Taikoo Chinese Navigation Company Tonnage Letters
1
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Departmental Annual Reports
1
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Journals
1
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Shareholder Registers
1
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Share Registers
1
Traffic Rights and Policy Correspondence
1
UK/Japan Correspondence
1
Varnarch Ltd
1
War Time Political Letters
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