Records of Barclay & Mathieson Ltd, steel stockholders, Shieldhall, Glasgow, Scotland, 1877-

• Private letter books, 1918-1945;
• Private ledgers, 1918-1947;
• Private journal, 1930-1952;
• Cash book, 1949-1954;
• Credit notes, 1931-1974;
• Accounts rendered books, 1932-1952;
• Quotation book, 1937-1945;
• Order books, 1936-1963;
• Contract book, 1912-1937;
• Input and output records, 1934-1942;
• Goods inward book, 1931-1946;
• Stock books, 1907-1920.

Barclay & Mathieson was established in 1877  at Wallace Street, Glasgow, Scotland, as a steel stockholding business. The company manufactures steel products for industry, and the records reflect their dealings with many of the prominent shipbuilding, engineering, sugar refining and building companies in the Glasgow area. The partnership of Barclay & Mathieson was bought-out in 1925  by the Dykes family. Following Mr Dykes' death in 1951, his son, Mark Dyke, took over as director along with his brother, until some years later when they agreed to the serving directors "buying-in" to the company, although the Dykes family still maintained a minority shareholding. The company was incorporated as a private limited company in August 1955  as Barclay & Mathieson Ltd and moved to its present site at Shieldhall in 1957. Since 1971, the company has pursued a development programme and in 2008 became part of the Stemcor group of companies. It operates 14 depots both in England and Scotland with the main headquarters remaining in Shieldhall, Glasgow.

The material is arranged into series, which consist of numbers of items related by format and/or function. Within series, items are generally arranged chronologically

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Deposit : M Dykes, Life President of Barclay & Mathieson Ltd : September 1999 : ACCN 1836

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Previously held by the Dykes family, directors of Barclay & Mathieson Ltd

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Balance sheets, and profit & loss accounts, 1918-1920, retained by the depositor

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Description compiled in line with the following international standards: International Council on Archives, ISAD(G) Second Edition, September 1999and National Council on Archives, Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names

Fonds level created from an EAD template in MS Word by the running of Visual Basic macros by David Powell, Hub Project Archivist on 26 November 2001. Lower levels catalogued in Encoded Archival Description by Michael Beesley, IMP student cataloguer, November 2012. Amended by Sam Maddra, Assistant Archivist (cataloguing), 30 June 2014.