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Correspondence, memoranda, reports and other documents, leading to the Board of Trade Order, 1915, to incorporate a body of trustees to form the Porthmadog (Harbour) Trust. The trust was responsible for the acquisition of the harbour, its maintenance, and improvements to the harbour and its approaches. Correspondents include representatives of local authorities, The Oakley Slate Quarry, Board of Trade Development Commissioners, Ynyscynhaiarn U.D.C., Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], Ffestiniog Railway, Cambrian Railways and the Portmadoc Harbour Committee.

Statement of account.

Three notices of shareholders meetings.

Register of stocks, 1877-1878, of Alexandra Slate Co. Ltd. Caernarfon, the Goodman Slate Quarry, Llanberis, the Cefn-du Slate Quarry Co., Waenfawr, and the Caermeinciau Slate Co., Waenfawr (all in co. Caernarfon), while trading as Jonathan Davies Slate Merchant. Register resumes with stocks and locations, 1879-1898, sales 1888, and details of shipments from Portmadoc, Caernarfon and other ports, 1884-1915.

Reports, prices, posters, plans, sale catalogues, letters and cuttings, relating to quarries in the UK, US, Norway and Australia, and the quarrying related industries. Of particular interest is bundle 64 which relates to the Kellow planing table, for which Davies Bros owned half the rights. Includes an index to the contents, compiled, 1951.

Records and papers of various quarries in which Davies Brothers had financial interests, comprising Whitland Abbey Gilfach Quarries, [1890]-1918, Precelly Green and Rustic Slate Company Limited, 1897-1941, Oakeley Slate Quarries Company Limited, 1933-1957, Maen Offeren Slate Quarry Company Limited, 1906-1957, Diphwys Slate Quarry Company Limited, 1909-1937, and Tyrch Quarry, Mynachlogddu, 1933-1942.

Draft lease for 21 years, of land to work the slate vein in and under Gilfach Dofn, by William James of Gilfach Dofn, p. Llandissilio, co. Carm., to Alfred Pritchard, Rosebush, p. Maenclochog co. Pemb., slate merchant. Includes map.

Agreement between Alfred Pritchard, quarry proprietor, and Messrs. Davies Bros, for the sale of the produce of the Whitland Abbey or Gilfach Green slate vein.

Reports of the Oakeley Quarries Company, 1933-1957.

Annual reports of the Maen Offeren Quarry Company, 1906-1957.

Printed annual reports, balance sheets and statement of accounts for years ending, 1905-1916, 1918, 1921-1956.

Copies of business letters, including index.

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.

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

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.