posted on 2018-05-15, 10:19authored byGraeme Leng-Ward
The aim of this project has been to provide an overview of the holdings of
historical records of the British motor car manufacturing industry as this
important industry approaches its centenary in 1996. Initial chapters review
the background to the project and reasons for its undertaking, the history of
the industry and the types of records generated by it. Chapter four lists car
manufacturing companies, brief accounts of their histories and the location
and nature of record holdings. Because of the complex relationships in this
industry and the constant redefining of the forms that companies take through
mergers, liquidations, acquisitions and changes of name, the companies have
been listed mostly in the form of 'groups of related companies'. Within each
of these groups there are common factors with regard to the manufacturing
process, locations and record generation. The study has been limited to
locating the records of the sixty one groups that have manufactured for at
least twenty years supplemented by a selection of six groups that
manufactured for between two and twenty years. Summary descriptions of
record holdings have been given where access to the records or to listings of
the records have been obtained.
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Publication date
1994
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A Master's Dissertation. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Master of Arts degree of Loughborough University of Technology.