James Hardie Industries Limited - further records, 1891-1993, together with further Reid family papers, 1880-1988

MLMSS 7793/Boxes 1-6
MLMSS 7793/Box 7X
MLOH 566

fonds

1880-1993

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Photographs, Clippings

457983

Photographs
Clippings
Sound Recordings
1.00 metres of textual material (6 boxes and 1 outsize box) - manuscript, and typescript
1 sound tape reel (1 hr.)

JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES LIMITED

BOX 1
1906-1912; Journal of Sydney Machine Co. and James Hardie & Co. Ltd

1912-1927; Ledger, 1912-1922, and journal, 1912-1927 in one volume

1908-1918, 1920; Salary books (5): 1908-1909, 1909-1910, 1911, 1912-1913 (loose pages), 1913-1918. Together with salary list, 1918, and Rules and Regulations of Employees' Benefit or Provident Fund for Asbestos Slate and Sheet Manufacturing Co. Ltd and James Hardie Co. Ltd, 21 Apr. 1920

1917; Records of registration of factory premises at Camellia for Asbestos Slate and Sheet Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

1925; Report, prepared in Europe, describing a technique for manufacturing cement mosaic tiles

BOX 2
1918-1951; Minute book of James Hardie & Co. Ltd (registered 4 Apr. 1918) and Hardie Investments Ltd, 11 Apr. 1918-13 June 1951; annotated 'name changed to Hardie Investments Ltd on 25 Oct. 1926'

1920-1947; Minute book of The Asbestos Mining Co. of Australia Ltd (registered 23 June 1920), 29 June 1920-1 June 1923 and James Hardie Trading Company Pty Ltd, 3 July 1926-5 June 1947

1923-1944; Minute book of Reid Investments Pty Ltd, 15 Oct. 1923-13 Aug. 1943, with resolutions passed to 20 June 1944

1926-1944; Cash book of Hardie Investments Pty Ltd

BOX 3
1939-1954; Share registers for NSW and Victoria, with duplicate NSW register

1935-1954; Share documents, mainly of Andrew Thyne Reid, originally enclosed in front of NSW share register

1946-1954; Ledger of Reid Investments Pty Ltd

1944-1955; Minute book of Reid Investments Pty Ltd, including final meeting of shareholders

BOX 4
1939-1956; Balance sheets, 1939-1954, and liquidation documents, 1954-1956, of Reid Investments Pty Ltd

1932-1972; Miscellaneous folders: correspondence with overseas firms

1937-1939; file of reports and memos prepared for and by Andrew Thyne Reid as chairman of Hardie Trading Pty Ltd, 1932-1938; accounts of stocks of felts, 1946-1947; notes from training courses, 1955-1958; Fire door board product specification, 1972

BOX 5
1978-1988; Printed material including prospectuses for share offers and programmes for entertainment sponsored by James Hardie Industries

1980-1993; Newscuttings concerning James Hardie Industries and John Boyd Reid

1891-1982; History file kept by John Reid, being mainly papers concerning Centenary Project to write a history of the company. Includes correspondence between John Balmforth and John Reid, 1979-1982, business correspondence between Andrew Reid and others, 1929-1938, newscuttings, originals and copies of family and company letters and documents dated from 1891 and transcripts of interviews with Hardie employees

BOX 7X
1932-1979, undated; Company photographs

REID FAMILY

BOX 6
1880, 1923, 1934; Margaret Thyne Reid (born 1868) - 'The Golden text-book', a small book of printed hymns used as an autograph book. Inscribed: 'Margaret Thyne, July 22nd 1880'; passports, 1923, 1934

1889-1935; Andrew Reid (1867-1964) - Notebook, 1889; 'Diary of a later landsman from Glasgow to Melbourne per ship "Loch Shiel"', 28 Nov. 1891-13 Mar. 1892; leather bound notebook, 1891-1919; miscellaneous letters, notes and newscuttings originally enclosed in leather bound notebook, 1891-1916; pocket diaries, 1922-1942; bankbook, 1917-1921; passports, 1922-1935

1927; Katharine Mabel Reid, nee Wilson (born 1904) - passport, 1927 (Call No.: MLMSS 7793/6)

1964-1988; John Boyd Reid (born 1929) - passports, 1964-1988

1913-1995; Family letters and miscellaneous notes and newscuttings. Includes letters from Margaret Reid to her sons Andrew Thyne Reid ('Thyne') and John Thyne Reid ('Jock') and daughter-in-law Katharine

1904-1970; Newscuttings

BOX 7X
undated; Family photographs

MLOH 566/1
Oral history recording of funeral service for Andrew Thyne Reid, 1964

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