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What did we have?

Accounts and minute books

Original hand drawn plans

Thousands of original photographs

Newspaper clippings

Making sense of it all

Digising

Derestricng documents

Does your story match your archive?

Our archive Third Party Era 1 84% 16% Era 2 77% 23% Era 3 56% 44% Era 4 49% 51% Era 5 82% 18% Era 6 43% 57% Era 7 14% 86% Concorde 65% 35% Overall 63% 37%

Filling the gaps

• Try to use as much from your collecon as possible
• Images from other sources is costly
• Use any contacts you have to get high res images for a reduced price or

free We used

• IWM (discount but must charge to maintain)
• Adrian Meridith (official BA Concorde photographer) (very costly)
• Ge-y (very costly. avoid unless essenal)
• RAF Air historic Branch (kindly provided free images)
• Local photographer

Where we started

Today

Archive staons

• To add depth
• To showcase la-er finds and addional images and

documents

• And to improve access

h-p://dev.spiralproducons.ltd.uk/bact/start.php

Tips for transferring to exhibion

• Find out the res. Size quality of digital required for

your panels (ask the company doing the artwork)

• Digise as much as possible so you have the

greatest choice of images you can.

• If you can digise in house to a high enough

standard you will save a lot of money (volunteers can help here)

What did we have?

• Accounts
• Minutes
• Plans
• Sales ledgers
• Factory images
• Tesng images
• No personnel records
• No images of products in service
• No record of who the people in the images are
• Film in canisters (paid to have digised and edited)

What the collecon is known to contain:

• Minutes (not a complete and detailed run) first minute book is digised and available online at the Royal Aeronaucal Society h-ps://nyurl.com/y8ss5ho5
• Accounts c.1910-1960s
• Press cu?ngs 1910-onwards
• Photographs and negaves of almost all types of Bristol aircra@ under construcon or just a@er construcon, and various company subjects. Very rich part of the collecon.
• Drawings – mainly on microfiche or negaves. Some on paper/waxed linen.
• ET3 – this is the series which has all sorts in it and will be catalogued as part of grant from 1910 to Concorde.
• Manuals and parts list type material for some of the Bristol aircra@, especially Britannia and Freighter.
• Research files, put together on various Bristol subjects by the BACT at Kemble. 3 series of these, rather than 1. Some duplicaon of subjects but kept separate as this is how

it was found.

• Company material donated by individuals
• Mainly airframe material
• What the collecon doesn’t contain:
• Personnel records – very, very few records relang to people who worked here
• Build records of Bristol aircra@, for example not possible to trace an aircra@ from its number. Anything to do with design and construcng

the aircra@ seems to be missing, e.g. project files, records of decisions etc.

• The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust hold the Bristol engine side of the story, there is some engine material here, but they have the bulk. Contact

is Bob Hercock – volunteer archivist – personal email address rh007f3555@blueyonder.co.uk (Heritage Manager is Peter Collins)

h-ps://www.rolls-royce.com/about/heritage-trust/branches/bristol-branch.aspx

• Bristol cars material – is with the Bristol Owners’ Club. They are either sll looking for a home for it with Bristol Archives or it is there now.

BACT couldn’t accommodate it or their requests around it. Contact is (personal email address) stefan@cembrowicz.co.uk - h-ps://boc.net/s/

• Helicopters – not sure where this is for certain, if it survives. Some material in this collecon. Have asked Helicopter Museum in Weston

and Leonardo Helicopters.

• Bristol Archives have some material too.
• Concorde drawings and info are held by Airbus at Iron Mountain as far as I know. Negoaons over who owns them between BAE Systems

and Airbus, and there are a lot apparently. Set of microfiche Concorde drawings at both organisaons, with an index. There are some pre- producon Concorde drawings (ref: AT) which are part of the set BAE Systems also have. BAE repatriated these from Lloyds Bank, and part

• f the set was held by Royal Airforce Charity, ..\Drawings\Concorde prototype drawings and they came here. Barry Guess does know we

have part of the set and he can have them if he would like.

• Current Sir George White also has family papers which are not available. Any contact with Sir George needs to be through Fundraising

Dept.