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Ledger containing figures for debits and credits to various accounts within the company.

The term 'depot' used in the title of this volume appears to refer to the Blackfriars head office and its departments as a whole and so the ledger includes accounts relating to the Blackfriars depot, the bacon department, the factory, the works department, and other financial accounts managed at a head office level (rather than by branches).

After September 1911, the depot private ledgers were split into two series - A and B (later a C series was added).

Indexed.

Some examples of the accounts included are:
Depot: Housekeeping
Depot: Telegrams
Depot: Beer Money
Depot: Stable Expenses
Depot: Trade & Office Expenses
Officials' Travelling
Depot: Staff Advertising
Depot: Postage Stamps
Depot: Carriage out
Depot, Offices, Factory & General: Stationery
Depot: String, Paper &c.
Depot: Fodder & Straw
Depot: Oil & Waste
Depot: Office & Casking: Fuel
Depot: Hampers & Baskets & Sugar Cases
Lamb Bags
Depot: Motor Expenses & Fuel
Depot: Repairs - Stables
...
Bacon: Bacon Purchases
Bacon: Ham Purchases
Bacon: Bacon & Ham Wholesale Sales & Charged to Shops & Factory
Bacon: Sundry Expenses
Bacon: Sawdust, Pea Meal & Straw
...
Bacon & Ham: Trading, Profit & Loss Account
Factory: Skins
Factory: Corks, Stoppers &c.
...
Leasehold Property, Bournemouth
...
Gravel Lane: Rent, Rates, Taxes, Water & Electric less Rents Receivable
...
Works Department: Current Account
...
General Account J. Sainsbury
...
General Profit & Loss Account
...
Works Department Profit & Loss Suspense a/c
Depot Profit & Loss Suspense a/c
Depot Trading a/c Suspense a/c

Cross-references to other account books are included:
No. 2: Cash books number 2 account (Bank Book 2, 1907-19)
(other cross-references, not yet checked)