William Hanson and Company Limited, Business Archive

Comprises: (1) Credit ledgers, 1931-1951;
2) Debit ledgers, 1927-1950;
3) Invoice day-books for payments, 1929-1951;
4) Day-book for receipts, 1943-1951;
5) Wage books, 1924-1950;
6) Purchase ledgers, 1937-1950;
7) Order book, 1942-1948;
8) Sales ledgers, 1942-1946;
9) Day book (yarn), 1945-1951;
10) Average books (single), 1937-1949; (twofold), 1940-1954;
11) Register of spinning approval certificates, 1942-1944;
12) Yarn sale contracts counterfoil books, 1940-1952;
13) Sales invoices counterfoil books, 1944-1953;
14) Returned tubes and skips counterfoil books, 1950-1954;
15) Spinning day book, 1942;
16) Winders' book, 1935-1953;
17) Day book register of gross and net weights, 1939-1942;
18) Ledger of yarn received, 1948-1953.

William Hanson and Company Limited, of Haley Mills, Halifax, were cotton spinners, doublers, and warp manufacturers.

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Acquired from Haley Mills in January 1970.

Described in Handlist 61

A smaller collection of mainly earlier papers of the firm was acquired by Calderdale District Archives in 1975 (their MS Misc. 189)