Notebook, possibly private memo book, [large number of pages removed].

• Reference:GB 254 MS 95/12/2
• Dates of Creation:1876-1906.
• Name of Creator:
  Thomson, Shepherd & Co. Ltd
• Physical Description:
  1 item

• Scope and Content

  Entries include notes on deployment of staff, particularly managers and their salaries, comparison of spinning and weaving production and costs at Seafield Works with two mills in Calcutta; rent of Seafield Works for 1878; feu duties; some details of costs of other Dundee mills and of numbers of spindles and looms; cost of carpet patterns for year ending 31 May 1884; horse-power produced and space occupied by factory engines, 1889; rough estimate of value of Seafield Works, 1892; comparison between cost of making a ton of hessian in Calcutta and at Gilroys [Dundee], 1893; statement of charges to be debited to different departments, 1904.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Thomson, Shepherd & Co. Ltd. was founded in 1848 when David Thomson, a shipmaster's son who had served an apprenticeship with James Neish, a jute pioneer, set up in business on his own in a small hand-spinning and hand-loom weaving shed. The firm was soon operating successfully and in 1852 David Thomson was granted a patent from Queen Victoria in respect of jute carpeting - the earliest patent granted in Dundee for any jute product.

• Access Information

  Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

• Acquisition Information

  The records were deposited by A Sanderson in 1986

• Note

  Thomson, Shepherd & Co. Ltd. was founded in 1848 when David Thomson, a shipmaster's son who had served an apprenticeship with James Neish, a jute pioneer, set up in business on his own in a small hand-spinning and hand-loom weaving shed. The firm was soon operating successfully and in 1852 David Thomson was granted a patent from Queen Victoria in respect of jute carpeting - the earliest patent granted in Dundee for any jute product.

• Other Finding Aids

  Descriptive list. Subject source lists and databases are also available.

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  The records are on paper.

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Keren Guthrie November 2006

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Custodial History

  Unknown

• Accruals

  Not expected

• Location of Originals

  The records are original.

• Additional Information

  Published