Archives of Ellerman's Wilson Line

Dates:  
1825-1974

Related Material

Related Material:

Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company [U DEA]

John Good & Sons Ltd. [U DGO]

Material relating to the Wilson Family [U DFW]

Items relating to the 'Atlantic' Steamship [U DX119]

Material relating to the Ellerman Wilson Line and company [U DX368]

Material relating to the vessels "Gay Corsair" and "Fort St James" of Ellerman's Wilson Line [U DX417]

Other repositories:

Artefacts, photographs and other Wilson Line ephemera, Hull Maritime Museum [GB 0323]

Business correspondence and notebooks of Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 1911-1933, Glasgow University Archive Services [GB 0248]

Publication Notes:
Attwood, Gertrude M, 'The Wilsons of Tranby Croft' (Cherry Burton: Hutton Press, 1988)
Credland, AG and M Thompson, 'The Wilson Line of Hull 1831-1981: the rise and fall of an empire' (Cherry Burton: Hutton Press, 1994)
Dyson, Brian, 'The Wilson Line', Business Archives, November 1992, pp.26-37
Dyson, Brian, 'The Wilson Line Archive', Paragon review, no.1, 1992, pp.4-7
Dyson, Brian, 'End of the Line', in David J Starkey and Alan G Jamieson (editors) 'Exploiting the sea: aspects of Britain's maritime economy since 1870' (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998)
Havers, Sir Michael, Edward Grayson and Peter Shankland, 'The Royal Baccarat scandal' (London: Kimber, 1977)
Jeremy, David J (editor), 'The dictionary of business biography' (London: Butterworth, 1984), volume 2, entry on Sir John Reeves Ellerman, pp.248 - 264
Taylor, James, 'Ellermans: a wealth of shipping' (London: Wilton House Gentry, 1976)