Photographs of tramway and workshops,
- BD3/5/1.
- File
- [1900x1925].
Photographs of tramway and workshops,
Accounts of slate sold to Davies Bros.
Printed directors' report, balance sheet and statement of accounts submitted at the Annual General Meeting for years ending 1922, 1926, 1928-1930.
Copies of business letters, including index.
Cash book and subsistence lists,
Originally used as a cash account book, 1909-1915. Later used to record monthly subsistence lists, 1919-1925, pp 45, 80-140.
Memorandum and articles of association,
Includes incomplete draft copy.
Register of officials, shareholders and share dealings,
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.
Board of directors' minute book,
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.
Correspondence relating to Tyrch Quarry, Mynachlogddu, machinery and stock, 1933-1942.
Tyrch quarry machinery and stock,
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.
Ministry of Munitions, post-war government housing scheme,
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.
Background papers and tendering process,
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.
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.
Department of Building Materials Supply,
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 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.
Ffestiniog District Slate Quarry Proprietors' Association,
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.
Ffestiniog District Slate Quarry Proprietors' Association.