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Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Service

Williams Hudson Group


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): BD26

Held at: Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Service

Title: Williams Hudson Group

Date(s): 1869-1981

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 15 shelves

Name of creator(s): Williams Hudson Group

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Williams Hudson Group Limited is the parent holding company for a number of companies, and was incorporated on 30 September 1936, bringing together Samuel Williams and Sons Ltd and John Hudson Ltd, and their subsidiaries. This group went on to acquire more companies, covering the following aspects of trade: international transportation and wharf ownership, road transportation, property dealing, motor retail, finance, hotels and building, engineering and metalwork, fuel distribution, storage and manufacture.

Williams Hudson Group went into liquidation and was sold to an asset stripper in the 1980s, who divided up and sold off the various companies that comprised it. The majority of the companies whose archives are contained within this collection were part of the group, but some are believed to be other companies, which had been taken over by the asset stripper and whose files had become mixed with those of the Williams Hudson Group.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection comprises minute books, registers of members, account books, plans and photographs of the businesses and companies that formed the Williams Hudson Group (1869-1981). For a full list of material within this collection follow this link: http://www.lbbd.gov.uk/MuseumsAndHeritage/BoroughArchivesandLocalStudies/Documents/ALSWilliamsHudsonGroup.pdf

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The collection has been arranged as received taking into consideration the format and chronology of material.

Conditions governing access:

The material within this collection is open to research by appointment at the Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre. For further information about visiting the reading room please contact localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk or telephone 020 8227 2033.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Material within this collection can be reproduced at the discretion of the Borough Archivist. For further information about conditions governing reproduction please contact localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk or telephone 020 8227 2033.

Finding aids:

For additional information on the content of this collection please contact localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk or telephone 020 8227 2033.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The material contained within this collection was rescued by employees of Samuel Williams and Sons from being thrown away by the asset stripper, and was subsequently donated to London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD (G), 2nd edition, 2001. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Catalogued in 2008. Description added to Aim25 in April 2014.


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Business records | Documents | Information sources

Personal names

Corporate names
Williams Hudson Group

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