City of Cork Steampacket Company Archive Descriptive List

IE CCCA U370

City of Cork Steam Packet Co Ltd

Extent: 107ff Scope and Content: The volume notes details of voyage number, item, customer, and details of the abatement.

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U370/F/166

Date:

Feb 1952 – Aug 1958

Title:

Abatements Book

Level: item Extent: 1 vol Scope and Content: The volume notes number, voyage, item, name of customer, details, folio reference, and manifest.

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U370/F/167 Rebate Book

Date:

c1917 – 1924, 1014pp

Title:

Level: item Extent: 1014pp Scope and Content: Volume recording information on rebates by customer, date, and port/route. See also U370/F/169

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U370/F/168 Rebate Book

Date:

1926 – 1927

Title:

Level: item Extent: 106pp Scope and Content: Indexed. See U370/F/167 and 169

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U370/F/169

Date:

January 1935 – December 1938

Title:

Outward Rebate Book

Level: Extent: 1017pp [many gaps] Scope and Content: The volume records rebates granted in respect of volumes of goods moved for commercial customers. At the top of each page is noted the company name and address. Entries for all or part of the period 1935-38 for each company are grouped together. A table on each page has a field recording the date, followed by fields for the following ports: Liverpool, Bristol, Fishguard, London, Southampton, and Manchester. Underneath each is a sub- field for recording quantities in ‘Firkins, T, C, Q, lbs’ [tonnes, hundredweights, q uarts, pounds]. Periodically totals are added and marked as ‘passed’ for that period, the total being multiplied by a fixed rate [often three shillings]. In some cases, rebates are recorded alongside individual entries. Customers include Allensbridge Co-Op Creamery Ltd, Dairy Disposal Company, James J Murphy and Son, Beamish and Crawford, Cork

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