Guide to the Records of J & J Cash Ltd. (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M2088-M2089

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2018

Collection Summary

Creator
J & J Cash Ltd
Title
Records of J & J Cash Ltd. (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range
1890 - 1955
Collection Number
M2088-M2089
Extent
4 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

Ledgers, minutes of meetings of directors of the Melbourne company, financial papers and correspondence. Correspondents include W.J. Roberts and A.E. Webb of Melbourne and R.J. Cash of Coventry. Includes plans of the factory in Melbourne.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Archival History

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1987 (AJCP Reel: M2088-M2089). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

Coventry Archives and Research Centre. Formerly the Coventry City Record Office, Mandela House, Bayley Lane, Coventry CV1 5RG, England.

Collection reference: 562 and 738. For further information, see Coventry History Centre and Local Archives catalogue (http://coventrycollections.org/).

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-vn774478] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

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

Business records; Cash, J. & J. Ltd; Cash, R.J.; Coventry, England; Melbourne, Victoria; Roberts, W.J.; Textile industries; Webb, A.E.

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 92, p.32.

Biographical / Historical

John and Joseph Cash founded their ribbon weaving company in 1846. In 1906 the company set up subsidiaries in the United States, Canada and Australia. The Australian company was based in Richmond, Melbourne. In 1928 it amalgamated with the Australian Weaving Co. Ltd.

Item Descriptions

Series 562. Records of J. & J. Cash Ltd., 1890 - 1948

17 items

Subseries 44. Private ledgers of J. & J. Cash Ltd. (5 vols.), 1915 - 1927

1 item
Volume, 1915 - 1927 (File)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Melbourne cash account, 1915 - 1927 (Item 42-43)

Subseries 55. Ledgers of production and sales costs at Kingfield Works and of subsidiary firms, 1918 - 1922

Filmed selectively.

Australian notes; Melbourne purchases and expenses, 1918 - 1920 (Item 114)
Australian sales, 1919 - 1921 (Item 115)
Summary of Australian financial reports, 1922 (Item 116)

Subseries. Records - Miscellaneous, 1890 - 1948

Quote on price of Arnold's Frilling in Melbourne (1p.), 7 May 1890 (Item 124)
New Zealand Patent Office. Receipts for renewal of trade mark of J. & J. Cash Ltd. in New Zealand (6pp.), October 1903 - January 1904 (Item 125)
Newspaper cutting concerning arrival of food parcels from J. & J. Cash Australian Weaving Co. to J. & J. Cash Ltd, 3 February 1948 (Item 126)
Leaflet on products of Australian Weaving Co. Pty. Ltd. (Melbourne) (2pp.), n.d. (Item 127)
Copies of half-yearly profit and loss accounts with balance sheets made up from information sent from Australia, 1914 - 1922 (Item 128)

Includes copies of letters from Whitehill and Whitehill, accountants (Birmingham), sent by J. & J. Cash Ltd. to J. & J. Cash Pty. Ltd. (Melbourne).

(c.160pp.)

Copies of minutes of meetings of directors of J. & J. Cash Pty. Ltd. (Melbourne) (58pp.), 1915 - 1927 (Item 129)

Incomplete

Particulars of sale agreement and caveat of land in Cubitt Street Richmond (Melbourne) purchased by J. & J. Cash Pty. Ltd. from C.A. Cox (13pp.), 1915 - 1916 (Item 130)
Agreement and receipt for transfer of land at rear of Melbourne factory from J. & J. Cash Ltd. (Coventry) to J. & J. Cash Pty. Ltd. (Melbourne) (3pp.), December 1920 - January 1921 (Item 131)
Agreement to stand seized in trust from Reginald J. Cash (Coventry) in 100 ordinary shares in J. & J. Cash Australian Weaving Co. (2pp.), 18 December 1928 (Item 132)
File of correspondence on amalgamation of J. & J. Cash Pty. Ltd. and Australian Weaving Co., 1925 - 1929 (Item 133)

Correspondents include W.J. Roberts (Melbourne); A.E. Webb (Melbourne); R.J. Cash (Coventry); Whitehill, Marsh and Jackson, accountants (Birmingham); Ford, Rhodes and Harris, accountants (Melbourne); Weigall and Crowther, solicitors (Melbourne). Includes memorandum of association of J. & J. Cash Australian Weaving Co. Pty. Ltd. [1928].

(c.300pp.)

Agreement between (i) J. & J. Cash Pty. Ltd. and C.E. Harris and (ii) J. & J. Cash Australian Weaving Co. Pty. Ltd. and agreement between (i) Australian Weaving Co. Pty. Ltd. and (ii) G.O'D. Crowther concerning incorporation of J.& J. Cash Australian Weaving Co. Pty. Ltd. (16pp.), 1928 (Item 134)
Whitehill March Jackson & Co. (Birmingham) to J. & J. Cash Ltd., 9 July 1927 (Item 135)

Valuation of shares of J.& J. Cash Pty. Ltd. (3pp.)

List of shareholders of J. & J. Cash Australian Weaving Co. Ltd., 1 Sept. 1930 and after transfer of Nisbett Estate shares, November 1936 (4pp.), 1 September 1930 (Item 136)

Series 738. Records of J. & J. Cash Ltd., 1920 - 1955

7 items

Memorandum and articles of association of J. & J. Cash Australian Weaving Co. Pty. Ltd. (63pp.), 10 July 1928 (Item 52)

J. & J. Cash Australian Weaving Co. Pty. Ltd. List of shareholders (11pp.), 1939 - 1955 (Item 54)

Plan of factory Melbourne (1p.), n.d. (Item 61)

Plan of factory Melbourne (3pp.), n.d. (Item 62)

Plan of factory Melbourne (1p.), April 1939 (Item 62/1A)

Minutes of meetings of governing Directors of J. & J. Cash Pty. Ltd. at Coventry (15pp.), 1920 - 1923 (Item 66)

Minutes of meetings of Directors of J. & J. Cash Pty. Ltd., 1928 (Item 67)

J. & J. Cash Australian Weaving Co. Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, 1928-1946, 1950-1953. (c.600pp.)


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