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Minutes, correspondence, financial and legal records, wages books, records of shipping business McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co Ltd, metal exchange prices, lead pipe book, staff records, blueprints and factory specifications, passport of John McIlwraith (1915), newspaper cuttings, photographs and plans.

Includes 1890 vend agreement between W Howard Smith and Sons Ltd, Huddart Parker and Co Ltd, James Paterson and Co, John McIlwraith, Melbourne Coal Shipping and Engineering Co Ltd and WF Walker and Company; copies of minutes of 1894 meetings between Australasian United Steam Navigation Co Ltd, W Howard Smith and Sons Ltd, Huddart Parker and Co Ltd, McIlwraith, McEacharn and Co Ltd and Adelaide Steamship Company Ltd re coastal shipping; copy of Board minutes re Fiji copra contract, purchase of Whittenoom business at Geraldton, prospecting in New Guinea etc; and papers relating to tender to supply coal to Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP) Company.

Includes 1853 agreement with Alexander and Francis Graham to form partnership as plumbers, painters and glaziers; 1891 agreement between various McIlwraiths and MD McEacharn, FK Berry, TB Robinson and R Gambles to form McIlwraith, McEacharn and Company; and documents relating to the estate of John McIlwraith 1888 - 1897, SS Flinders 1894 - 1908, Cozens and Harvey 1894, Sydney Lead Works 1892, Ayr (Scotland) house plan and road-making 1915, and Oswald Osborn agreement 1921.

Notes made while travelling in south-west Victoria to gain orders for transporting goods, detailing routes and charges for transport of wool, grain, wattle bark etc by steamer and rail.