Sources/Bibliography
Paisley Museum
Coats, O. M., A Book of Remembrance: Dr. & Mrs Joseph Coats, Jackson, Wylie & Co, Glasgow, 1929.
Coats, Andrew, From the Cottage to the Castle, Unpublished private record, c. 1892.
Local history project team – Six Cord Thread - also contained in the University of Paisley’s special collection.
List from archive catalogue is shown below:
J & P Coats records; Ledgers and financial records, 1808-1971; Employee's records, 1833-1962; photographs, 1878-c1950 and nd; Dyestuffs and manufacturing records, 1898-1978; Minute books, 1890-1980. Records of J & J Clark & Co. Minutes, 1896-1937; financial records 1896-1913, Letterbooks, 1880-1931. Newcuttings, 1812-1980; Miscellanea, 1936-80; Publications 1861-1980; Plans and machinery drawings, 1891-1935.
GUBA – UGD199
J. & P. Coats Ltd: minutes, 1884-1979; letterbooks, 1881-1911; correspondence, 1884-1973; accounting records, 1890-1972; patents and trade marks, 1891-1981. The Central Agency Ltd: minutes, 1889-1962; correspondence, 1908-38; accounting records, 1871-1959. Textile Pension Trust Ltd: minutes, 1932-58; letterbook, 1932-33; accounting records, 1932-73. United Thread Mills Ltd: minutes, 1931-62; annual returns, 1938-48. George & Clark Brothers/Clark Thread Co., minutes, 1897-1940. Clark & Co. Ltd: minutes, 1937-63; accounting records, 1880-1928. James Clark: letter books, 1821-1889; accounting records, 1813-39. L. P. Clarkke & Co. Ltd: minutes, 1907-62; accounting records, 1907-48. The International Thread Co. Ltd: minutes, 1926-63. La Plata Reel Cotton Co. Ltd: minutes, 1900-62; accounting records, 1900-64. Sewing Cotton agency: minutes, 1889. Fereneze Filling factory Ltd: sederunt book 1940-47. Laigh Park Electric Motors Ltd: minutes, 1932-36. Plasco Ltd: minutes, 1939-62; register of directors, 1939-64. The British trust Co. Ltd: minutes, 1890-1962; registers of directors and shareholders, 1896-1964. Machine Cottons Ltd: minutes, 1930-62; accounting records, 1848-1960. Meltham Trust Ltd: minutes, accounting records, 1896-1951. Jonas Brook & Bros. Ltd: minutes, 1896-1964. Associated Thread Sales Ltd: minutes, 1934-63. Kerr & Co. Ltd: minutes, 1888-1962. Viscolax Ltd: minutes, 1939-63. William Briggs & Co. Ltd: minutes, 1895-1959; accounting records, 1895-1939. Needlewoman Ltd: minutes, 1928-63. Walter Evans & Co. Ltd: minutes, 1905-62; accounting records, 1905-58; inventory and valuation of Boar's Head Cotton Manufactory, 1888. Joseph Warner & Sons Ltd: minutes, 1909-63. James Chadwick & Brothers Ltd: minutes, 1891-1963; accounting records, 1898-1945; inventory and valuation of Bagley Mills, 1891. The Hosier Needle Research & Development Co. Ltd: minutes, 1948-78. Main Electronics Ltd: register of members, 1948-62. The National Needle Arts Bureau Ltd: minutes, 1947-68. Montgomery & Nicol Ltd: accounting records, 1940-69. Miscellaneous notes and papers relating to the history of Coats Patons plc, 1837-c1963; including: details of sporting trip by Major Andrew Coats to Barents Sea, 1898; notes on experiments by Dr S. Z. de Ferranti into high speed cotton doubling and spinning, c1903-30; accout of journey from Po0land to Lithuania, 1939.
Secondary Sources
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Chandler, A. (1962), Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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Chandler, A (1990), Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
Coats, Brian. Seams Sewn Long Ago: The Story of Coats the Threadmakers, Private Publication, 2013.
Companies Act 1948, (UK Public General Acts, 1948, c38).
Farnie, D.A. (1979), The English Cotton Industry and the World Market, 1815–1896, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Fleming, A.I.M., McKinstry, S. and Wallace, K. (2000) “Decline and fall of the North British Locomotive Company, 1940-1962: technological and financial mismanagement or institutional failure?” Business History, 42(4), pp. 67-90.
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Kininmonth, K. (2016) “Weber’s Protestant Work Ethic: a case study of Scottish entrepreneurs, the Coats family of Paisley”. Business History, 58(8), pp. 1236-1261
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Kininmonth, K. and McKinstry, S. (2007) “Stitching it up: accounting and financial control at J & P Coats Ltd, c1890-1960”. Accounting History, 12(4), pp. 367-391.
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McKinstry, S., Kininmonth, K. and Mathieson, K. (2019) “The introduction and operation of standard costing at J&P Coats Ltd., 1925-1961: an institutional interpretation”. Accounting History Review, 29(3), pp. 369-389.
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