Guide to the Records of the Gourock Ropework & Co. (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2638 - M2639
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Gourock Ropework & Company
- Title
- Records of Gourock Ropework & Company (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1882 - 1971
- Collection Number
- M2638 - M2639
- Extent
- 15 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The records comprise financial papers, correspondence and legal papers relating to the company's operations in Australia and New Zealand. Correspondents include F.M. Munro, David Fell, George D. Cockburn, J. Matthews and A. Battye.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections.
For more information contact the University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections. [https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/archives/collections/].
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: Gourock Ropework and Co, Series 42/39, Balance Sheets, 1932-1933, University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections. (AJCP ref: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-761665916/findingaid#nla-obj-761666197).
Archival History
Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1990 (AJCP Reels: M2638-M2639). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections. Glasgow, Scotland.
For further information see Glasgow University. Archives and Special Collections (https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/archivespecialcollections/)
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2589537] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Related Materials
The miscellaneous collections of the Archives Business Record Centre have been listed separately (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1651006).
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Australia; Battye, A.; Business records; Cockburn, George D.; Fell, David; Gourock Ropework & Co; Matthews, J.; Munro, F.M.; New Zealand
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 194, p72.
Biographical / Historical
Founded in 1736 by Argyllshire fishermen to supply them with reliable ropes. In 1811 the works moved to Port Glasgow and the control passed into the hands of the Campbell and Birkmyre families. In 1903 the firm amalgamated with Lanark to form Gourock Rope Works Co. Ltd.
Item Descriptions
Series 42/64. Miscellaneous Files
Australia: Secretarial General (381p.), 23 May 1937 - 17 December 1953 (File)
Correspondence with A.D. Battye, W. Lampond, Sydney Office, re organisation of company property, accounts, slow moving stock, appointment of Cockburn as head of Australian Organisation, effect of New south Wales Companies Act 1936, relations with Birkmore Canvas Co., Queensland Probate Duties Act.
Includes: Minutes and AGM of Birkmore Canvas Co. Pty. Ltd., 1951; memorandum and articles of association of Canvas Advisory Association Pty. Ltd., Sydney, 1939.
Gourock Ropes and Canvas Ltd. New Zealand (441p.), 1944 - 1955 (File 42/93/3)
Correspondence with F.M. Munro, Wellington Office re sales of canvas, financial affairs, annual report and accounts, movement of stock.
Filmed selectively.
Annual Report and Accounts for Port Glasgow, Africa and New Zealand branches., 1959 - 1960 (File 42/95/1)
Although listed, this material was not copied by the AJCP, as file 96/3 contains duplicate material.
Birkmyre Canvas Co. Pty. Ltd. Australia (359p.), 1959 - 1962 (File 42/96/3)
Correspondence with George D. Cockburn, David Fell (Sydney), re Birkmyre Canvas Co. Pty. Ltd., Gourock Ropes and Canvas Ltd. Australian Subsidiary.
Subjects include: New factory at Seven Hills, salary of Mr. bownes, works manager, reporto nvisit to Australia by D.L. Morgan, importing machinery into Australia, financial affairs.
Correspondence with J.R. Reid & Son, iron merchants, Sydney (7p), 1931 (File 42/105/6)
Miscellaneous legal papers: Messrs. H.B. Donaldson & Co., Sandridge, 1867 - 1925 (File 42/105/12)
This file (42/105/12) Miscellaneous Legal papers was filmed selectively as only the contents of the envelope Messrs. H.B. Donaldson and Co., Sandridge was filmed.
Gourock Ropes & Canvas (Australia Ltd.), 1941 - 1953 (File 42/110/2)
Balance sheets with covering letter from David Fell. Accounts, Sydney, (123p.)
Gourock Ropes & Canvas (Australia Ltd.), 1941 - 1955 (File 42/110/3)
Correspondence with Sydney office on financial matters (9506p.)
Correspondents include: J. Matthews (Sydney), A. Battye (Sydney).
Gourock Ropes & Canvas (Australia Ltd.), 1954 - 1963 (File 42/110/4)
Correspondence with Sydney office on financial matters and balance sheets, includes list of debtors, 30 March 1963 (429p.)
Gourock Ropes & Canvas (New Zealand Ltd.), 1940 - 1952 (File 42/110/5)
Balance sheets with covering letter from Ernest Hunter, Turner & Co., Accountants Wellington, 1940-41, 1943-46, 1948-52. (104p.)
Gourock Ropes & Canvas (New Zealand Ltd.), 1953 - 1963 (File 42/110/6)
Correspondence with Wellington office on financial matters (1956-63) and balance sheets (1954-63). (395p,)
Correspondents include f. Munro (Wellington).
Correspondence re action by Hooker, Chapman & Co., Sydney, 1920 - 1924 (File 42/148/10)
Action brought against Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd. to recover damages for failure by later to deliver cloth contracted to be sold by Hooker, Chapman & Co. (c.170 p.)
Correspondents include: sly & Russell, Solicitors, Sydney, J.G. McColl (Sydney).