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Includes accounts of Davies Brothers Porthmadog, caretaking, profit and loss account, balance sheets, machinery and plant, wages etc. Includes index.

Includes caretaking accounts, 1926-1929.

The last entry records a request to store the company's books at Messrs Davies Bros. Most minutes are copies pasted onto pages in the book, some are loose and others illegible.

Accounts of slate sold to Davies Bros.

Copies of business letters, including index.

Printed directors' report, balance sheet and statement of accounts submitted at the Annual General Meeting for years ending 1922, 1926, 1928-1930.

Correspondence relating to Tyrch Quarry, Mynachlogddu, machinery and stock, 1933-1942.

Correspondence and accounts between Ithel Davies and P. F. Campbell, 1940-1942, relating to the proposed purchase of machinery and stock at Tyrch and Llyn Quarries, Mynachlogddu, Pembrokeshire, together with a price list and particulars, 1933 and 1936.

Papers relating to the government scheme to increase and improve British housing stock. The particular view of Davies Bros. was that foreign materials were of an inferior quality.

Ministry of Munitions Government Housing Scheme, 1919, with comments on the conditions of tender, the condition of the slate industry, and correspondence, 1914-1919, totals of imports of slate, 1901-1903, [c. 1919] with a list of the quarries worked in North Wales during the thirty years ending 1919.

Orders and invoices of slates delivered by Messrs Davies Bros, of Slate Wharf, Porthmadog, under the direction of the Department of Building Materials Supply.

Copy letter from Jonathan Davies to Lloyd George, in response to newspaper articles regarding the use of foreign slate in housing schemes. Two cuttings enclosed.

Copy letter from Jonathan Davies to the Editor of 'Herald Gymraeg, regarding the article 'Y Chwarelwr', which appeared in the paper 16 September 1924. The article criticises the use of English and South Wales slate in the Caernarfon area. Includes a cutting of the Welsh language article.

Papers relating to the Ffestiniog branch of the North Wales Slate Quarries Association, established to promote and protect the North Wales slate industry during a period of depression in the trade. Particularly interesting are the reports on the slate industries and use of slate in North America and Europe, 1924-1930.

Data relating to the slate exported, 1902-1914, and foreign slate imported, 1903-1914, 1929, 1934.

Printed agreement between Ffestiniog District Slate Quarry Proprietors' Association, the Council of the National Association of Slate Merchants and Slaters, and slate merchants not members of the National Association, for a term of three years not to supply slates or slabs to businesses north of a line through Chester, Stratford, Bletchley, Haverhill to Lowestoft, as delineated on the map.

Ffestiniog District Slate Quarry Proprietors’ Association balance sheets, 1910-1911, and associated particulars and properties of Portmadoc slates in English and French, including a list of members.

Draft of a proposed report by the Standing Committee, on Mr Frederick Walker's pooling scheme designed to protect those companies trading in genuine Porthmadog slate.

Copy letter to the Association, from Richard Bowton, and copy of a report of a meeting with Irish local officials concerning the use of French slate ahead of the approved Portmadoc slates, for use in Ireland under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts 1883 to 1906.