IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 1016
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Coachbuilder's Estimate Book
Date(s): 1874-1877
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Hammond | S | fl 1874-1877 | coachbuilder
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
No further information available.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript estimate book kept by S Hammond, coachbuilder, Waterloo Street, Brighton, 1874-1877. Containing company business card and estimates for the cost of work carried out repairing and repainting landaus, gigs, broughams, barouches, stanhopes, dogcarts, victorias, phaetons, wagonettes, clarences, perambulators, village carts and wine trucks. Each estimate is prepared for a specific client, noting their address, with customers including Baron Grant and Sir Albert Sassoon.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from Spelman's, 2004.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2008