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HOLMES AND PYKE (COACHBUILDERS)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-094

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HOLMES AND PYKE (COACHBUILDERS)

Date(s): 1792-1797

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Holmes and Pyke | coachbuilders

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Thomas Holmes and John Pyke were both liverymen of the Coachmakers' Company. They had premises at 109 Long Acre.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Day book of Holmes and Pyke, coachbuilders.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased by Guildhall Library in 1969. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Additional records of the firm, together with Pyke's personal papers and accounts, are among the Chancery Masters' exhibits in The National Archives (C 110/91).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Coach builders | Manufacturers | Industrial personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Coach building | Vehicle manufacture | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Coaches | Vehicles | Transport
Financial records | Documents | Information sources

Personal names

Corporate names
Holmes and Pyke | coachbuilders

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe