Guide to the Records of J & J Cash Ltd. (as filmed by the AJCP)
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 itemsSubseries 55. Ledgers of production and sales costs at Kingfield Works and of subsidiary firms, 1918 - 1922
Filmed selectively.
Subseries. Records - Miscellaneous, 1890 - 1948
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)
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.)