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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250
China Navigation Company Property Letters
170
Butterfield & Swire China and Japan
165
Hong Kong General Letters
128
General Correspondence
93
Shanghai General Letters
92
Staff letters
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89
Staff Letters
88
House Staff Letters
70
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57
Butterfield & Swire Property Letters
51
House Accounts Letters
50
Butterfield and Swire General Correspondence
49
China Navigation Company Ships Plans (Scans)
46
The Weekly, staff newspaper
41
China Navigation Company London Accounts Letters
41
Native Staff Letters
40
China Navigation Company Property
33
Eastern Staff Letters
33
John Swire and Sons Letters In: From Butterfield & Swire
32
Refinery Letters
30
London Director's Political Correspondence
30
Partners' and Directors' Letters
29
Inward Staff
28
Directors' Correspondence
26
Butterfield and Swire Legal Documents
25
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Legal Papers
23
China Navigation Company Eastern Accounts Letters
23
Refinery General Letters
22
Casualties A-M
22
China Navigation Co Australia Trade Letters
21
John Swire & Sons `P' China
20
Staff Correspondence
18
Agreements
18
Assorted Publications, Papers and/or Recollections collated for Research purposes, often collated in 'Miscellaneous' files by JS&S
18
Butterfield and Swire Accounts Letters
18
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Accounts
17
UK/China Correspondence Files
16
China Navigation Company Deeds and Legal Papers
16
China Navigation Company Eastern Accounts
16
China Navigation Company Ships' Log Books
16
China Navigation company Requisition Accounts
16
Dockyard Accounts Letters
16
John Swire & Sons Letters `P' Inland
16
John Swire & Sons Sundry Correspondence In
16
John Swire and Sons Out Letters
16
Minutes
16
Swire Pty General Correspondence
15
Butterfield and Swire Property Letters
15
China Navigation Company Eastern General Letters
15
Discovery: In-Flight Magazine
15
John Swire and Sons Business Reviews, Reports and Statements
14
Accounts Letters
14
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou]Trading Papers
14
John Swire & Sons Hong Kong: China and Japan
14
John Swire and Sons Deeds and Legal Papers
14
John Swire and Sons Property
14
Outward Staff
14
Shanghai Private Letters
14
Swire News
14
Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co Staff Letters
14
Taikoo Sugar Refinery General Letters
13
Alfred Holt & Co
13
Australia Japan Container Line Correspondence
13
Shanghai Master File
13
Yokohama
12
Butterfield and Swire Accounts
12
Casualties N-Z
12
Chefoo [Yantai]
12
Coast Boats Ownery and China Navigation Co Coastal Steamers Accounts
12
London Cash Books
12
Orient Paint, Colour & Varnish Co Letters
12
Shore Staff Letters
12
Sugar Refinery Letters
12
Sundry Correspondence
11
Balance Sheets
11
Floating Staff Letters
11
Post-war development of China
11
Shanghai Accounts Letters
11
Shanghai Property Title Deeds
11
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Accounts
11
Tientsin [Tianjin]
10
Aviation Advisor General Correspondence Files
10
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou]Property Papers
10
China Navigation Company Ships Specifications
10
John Swire & Sons Board Papers
10
John Swire and Sons Personal Papers
10
Ningpo [Ningbo]
10
Staff Correspondence during War time and Internment
10
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Accounts Letters
10
Tientsin Lighter Company Accounts
9
Coast Boats Ownery Casualties
9
Hong Kong Accounts Letters
9
Newchang Export Statistics
9
Newsletters
9
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 34
9
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 36
9
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 37
9
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 38
9
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Co Legal and Organisation Papers
9
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Property
9
War Time Staff Records
8
Amoy [Xiamen]
8
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou] Trade Agreements
8
China Navigation Company Steamer Correspondence
8
China Navigation Company Voyage and Incident Reports
8
Coast Boats Ownery Routine Papers
8
Company Journals
8
Kiukiang [Jujiang]
8
National Dock Labour Corporation
8
Newchang [Yingkou]
8
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 35
8
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 39
7
Articles of Association
7
Butterfield & Swire Swatow [Shantou] General Development
7
China
7
China Navigation Company Cash Books and Current Accounts
7
China Navigation Company Journals
7
China Navigation Company London Correspondence
7
China Navigation Company Staff
7
Formation of Limited Company
7
Japan Accounts Vouchers
7
Local Staff A-Z Letters
7
Nanking [Nanjing]
7
Orient Paint, Colour and Varnish Co Legal Papers
7
Press Cuttings
7
Property
7
Provident Fund Accounts
7
Provident Fund Receipts
7
Taikoo Chinese Navigation Co Accounts
7
Tientsin Lighter Co General Correspondence
6
Accident Reports
6
Alfred Holt & Co Letters
6
Annual Reports
6
Butterfield & Swire Japan Correspondence
6
Butterfield & Swire Staff Endowment Assurance Scheme
6
China Navigation Co Insurance documents
6
China Navigation Company London Accounts Books
6
China Navigation Company Minute Books and Registers
6
Correspondence
6
Finance Letters
6
Hankow [Hankou]
6
John Swire & Sons Company Correspondence Files
6
John Swire & Sons `P' Inland
6
London
6
Orient Paint, Colour and Varnish Co Minutes
6
Refinery Property Letters
6
Route Licensing
6
Shares
6
Swatow [Shantou]
6
Swire & Maclaine Legal Papers
6
Traffic Rights and Policy Correspondence
6
War Time Political Letters
5
Accounts
5
Air Traffic Statistics
5
Board Papers
5
Butterfield & Swire Staff Papers
5
CNCo General Tonnage Correspondence
5
China Navigation Company Records of Fleet
5
Coal Contracts Correspondence
5
Dragonair Correspondence
5
Exports to Shanghai and River Ports
5
Management Studies
5
Miscellaneous
5
National Dock Labour Corporation Minutes and Agreements
5
New Guinea Australia Line Correspondence
5
Overseas Containers Limited
5
Projects, Mergers and Subsidiaries
5
Route Correspondence
5
SS CHEFOO
5
Staff Inward
5
Steamship Companies Papers and Annual Reports.
5
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Property Letters
5
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Property Records
4
Accounting and Finance Papers
4
Agreements with Scott's Shipbuilders
4
Alfred Holt & Company Letters
4
Annual Reports and Accounts
4
Business Plans
4
Butterfield & Swire Articles of Association
4
China Navigation Co Ship Building Contracts
4
China Navigation Company Accounts
4
China Navigation Company Annual Reports and Statement of Accounts
4
China Navigation Company Pilgrim Trade Letters
4
China Navigation Company Tonnage
4
Chinese Staff Hankow [Hankou] Letters
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
Finance Records
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
Malaysia
4
Memorandum and Articles of Association
4
Photographs
4
Postponement of Payment
4
Staff Outward
4
Staff Pay-Off receipts. File labelled 'China Closure Staff Pay'
4
Staff Records
4
Straits Steamship Co
4
Taikoo Dockyard Staff Miscellaneous
4
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Accounts Letters
4
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Minutes
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
Bilateral Earnings
3
Blyth Greene Jourdain & Co, Ltd Accounts Letters
3
Butterfield & Swire Company Histories and Events
3
Butterfield & Swire reports on examinations of title deeds
3
Cathay Pacific Provident Fund
3
Cathay Pacific Schedules
3
China Navigation Co Publications and Photographs
3
China Navigation Company Accounts Letters
3
China Navigation Company Floating Staff Master Files
3
Coast Boats Ownery Vouchers
3
Company Histories
3
Conditions of Service
3
Correspondence between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai
3
Directors Conference
3
Early Partnership Agreements
3
Eastern Accounts
3
Far East
3
Foochow [Fuzhou]
3
Frigmobile Correspondence
3
General Correspondence.
3
John Swire & Sons Purchase Agreements
3
John Swire & Sons, Ltd Board Minutes
3
Legal Papers and solicitors accounts
3
Papers concerning Butterfield & Swire Japan property
3
Personal correspondence of JR Masson
3
Private Office Journals
3
Publications
3
Refinery Accounts Letters
3
SS SWATOW
3
Share Certificates
3
Shareholding Papers
3
Souvenir menus
3
Staff reports
3
Swire & Yuill Correspondence
3
Swire & Yuill Staff Papers
3
Swire Group Facts Pamphlets
3
Swire Properties Annual Reports
3
Swire Pty Legal Papers
3
Swire Pty Property
3
Swire and Maclaine Correspondence
3
Tientsin Lighter Company and Alfred Holt
3
Tonnage
3
Transfer of Hong Kong Property
3
UK/Australia Correspondence
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
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
Budgets
2
Butterfield & Swire Japan Minutes
2
Butterfield & Swire Shipping Code Correspondence
2
Butterfield & Swire War Claims
2
Butterfield and Swire Property
2
Buying Agents Agreements
2
Cannon Street
2
Cargo Charter Correspondence
2
Cash Books
2
Casualties
2
Charles Collingwood Roberts
2
China Navigation Co Tonnage and Ships Specifications
2
China Navigation Company Casualties
2
China Navigation Company Requisition Accounts Letters
2
China Navigation Company Taxation Letters
2
China Take-over Deeds of Transfer
2
Chinese Trademark and Registration Certificates
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
Eastern Staff
2
Euphrates: Proposed Merger between the Taikoo Dockyard and Kowloon Dock
2
Far East Oil Company
2
Fares Files
2
General Managers Agreements
2
Gulf
2
Hankow Bund Development
2
Incorporation Documents Probo Limited
2
Investment Ledgers
2
James Finlay & Co Ltd Annual Reports
2
John Swire & Sons Minute Books
2
Korea
2
Legal Documents
2
Letters between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire Shanghai
2
Letters from Law, Edkins and Robertson
2
London Petty Cash Books
2
Ministry of War Transport
2
Minutes of Australian Companies
2
New Zealand
2
Official report by Cyril Wray
2
Orient Paint, Colour and Varnish Co Staff
2
Pool Agreement Books
2
Private Ledgers
2
Private Office Dockyard General Letters
2
Provident Fund
2
Provident Fund Scheme Deeds and Rules
2
Purchase Agreements and Leases
2
Recruitment
2
Red Hand Agreements
2
Refinery General
2
SS FOOCHOW
2
Shanghai Property
2
Share Registers
2
Shareholding
2
Ships and Machinery Specifications
2
Sir John Robertson Masson Private Correspondence File, 1944-1945
2
Souvenir Certificates
2
Staff Contracts and Registers
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 30
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 25
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 26
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 27
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 28
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 29
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 32
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield & Swire, No. 33
2
Staff Letters from Butterfield and Swire, No. 31
2
Staff Pension fund letters
2
Staff Service Conditions
2
Statistics, Schedules and Analyses
2
Swire & Yuill Legal Papers
2
Swire Group Book
2
Swire Industries Minutes
2
Swire Pacific Offshore Conference
2
Swire Parcel Tankers Ltd
2
Swire Pty Board Minutes
2
Swire Pty Staff
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 Letters
2
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Minutes
2
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Share Registers
2
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Staff
2
Tientsin Lighter Company Accounts Letters
2
Tientsin Lighter Company Ledgers
2
Transwest Haulage Minutes and Board Papers
2
UK/Japan Correspondence
2
Wilkinson, Heywood and Clark Amalgamation
1
A: South Coast Ports
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
Australia
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
Butterfield & Swire India Accounts
1
Butterfield & Swire India Minutes
1
Butterfield & Swire Japan Property
1
Butterfield & Swire Managers Reports
1
Butterfield & Swire Properties Books
1
Butterfield & Swire Russia Legal Papers
1
Butterfield & Swire Shipping Code
1
Butterfield and Swire Staff
1
C: North Coast Ports
1
CNCo Board Minutes
1
Canton
1
Cathay Pacific Air Caterers
1
Cathay Pacific Convair 880-22M VR-HFZ Bombing
1
Chief Container Service Legal Papers
1
China Association Bulletins and Circulars
1
China Navigation Co Ships' Log Books, Reports and Records of Fleet
1
China Navigation Company Advertising Material
1
China Navigation Company Board Papers
1
China Navigation Company Board Papers and Minutes
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 Shareholder Letters
1
China Navigation Company Ships Accounts Letters
1
China Navigation Company Ships Plans
1
Chungking [Chongqing]
1
Clyde Shipping Co Ltd
1
Craft Built Books, 1
1
Equipment Files
1
Half-yearly accounts
1
Hong Kong
1
Hong Kong Aeronautical Engineering Company Legal Papers
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
Japan
1
John Swire and Sons Annual Reports and Accounts
1
John Swire and Sons Board Decisions
1
Kobe
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
OTHER ORGANISATIONS
1
Oceanroutes (Europe) Ltd
1
Panocean Anco Ltd Annual Reports
1
Promotional Material
1
Registers of Directors
1
SWIRE PACIFIC
1
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
1
Shares Registers and information
1
Ship's Files
1
Souvenir Passenger Lists
1
Speeches
1
Staff Lists
1
Staff Structure Charts and Lists
1
Sundry
1
Swire & Maclaine Staff
1
Swire & Yuill
1
Swire & Yuill Minutes
1
Swire Blyth Annual Reports
1
Swire Blyth Minutes
1
Swire Industries Correspondence
1
Swire Pty Board Papers
1
Swire Pty Staff Correspondence
1
Taikoo Chinese Navigation Company Tonnage Letters
1
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Departmental Annual Reports
1
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Property
1
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Shareholder Registers
1
Taikoo Shipping Gazette
1
Varnarch Ltd
1
War Damage Claims
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