Coachbuilder's Estimate Book

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS 1016
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Spelman's, 2004.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

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:
July 2008