| Description | This Ledger is very similar in style and content to the Soho Manufactory Engine Works Ledgers (MS 3147/1/9). It covers the period from the opening of the Foundry in 1795 to formation of Boulton Watt & Co. in 1800. It contains impersonal accounts for stores and materials, accounts of the various departments such as the Foundry Department and the Fitting Department, and also some personal accounts of employees, carrying companies and other Soho businesses. Entries were posted from the corresponding Journal (No. 1/33). The ledger is indexed.
The ledger was rebound in the 1950s/1960s, and was simply titled “Boulton & Watt Account Book” on the spine. |