John Swire and Sons Annual Reports and Accounts

Little of the accounting side of any of John Swire and Sons interests has survived, particularly for the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, and few full series of accounting papers remain. All accounts were sent back to London and finally made up in the London Office's Accounts Section. For t...

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Date(s) of creation: 1866-1977
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSS.1.7
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber JSS/1/7
callnumber_txt JSS/1/7
callnumber-sort JSS/1/7
scb_alt_ref_no JSSI 7
prefix_number 7
title John Swire and Sons Annual Reports and Accounts
scb_date_creation 1866-1977
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
scb_extent 31 boxes, 80 volumes
format Archive
description Little of the accounting side of any of John Swire and Sons interests has survived, particularly for the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, and few full series of accounting papers remain. All accounts were sent back to London and finally made up in the London Office's Accounts Section. For the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries the Cash Books, Journals and 3 surviving Ledgers include material relating to all John Swire & Sons interests and the correspondence between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire also contains some information of the making up of the annual accounts (see JSSI 1 and 2). For the Twentieth Century the individual firm's accounts survive in the form in which they were sent from the East to London (see each firm's own records) but nothing of the London side of the accounts remains.
scb_arrangement Papers are arranged by record type and then chronologically
scb_place_code 1819730
1814991
2643743
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
scb_use_restrictions Copying for personal research purposes is permitted. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests.
language English
language_search English
scb_finding_aids Paper handlist available
hierarchy_top_id_raw JSS
hierarchy_sequence JSS.001.007