Archival
Nottinghamshire Archives
The documentation of the firm was divided between The Museum of Nottingham Life and Nottinghamshire Archives. The documents that can be found at Nottinghamshire Archives include:
- Daily Sales Figures, December 1891 – June 1901 (divided into three ledgers).
- Staff wages, ‘Emergency payments’ and ‘War Office Payments’ (July 1912 – May 1918).
- Index for the Classification of Loose and Hard Tobaccos.
- Registers of private customers; surname, town, ledger, invoice and tobacco bought.
- Printed and bound copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association for the founding of John Player and Sons, 1895.
- Index of Leaf buying codes used when purchasing tobacco.
- Monthly Return of Sales, 1905.
- Lease Agreements between John Player & Son and various others for building purposes in Radford, Aspley Lane, etc.
- Machines for making cigarettes - Patent for cigarette making machine 1881. Specification of William Robert Lake.
- Letters between John Player and the Bohls Cigarette Machine Company, Virginia (September 1891 to January 1892).
- List of Brands, with guard book number.
- Trade and price lists from 1880s.
- Collection of advertisements and papers.
Museum of Nottingham Life
The documents that can be found at The Museum of Nottingham Life include:
- Files, documents and Press releases relating to sporting events and activities sponsored by John Player & Sons in Nottingham, such as; JP Motor Cycle Grand Prix 1976, JP Tennis Tournament 1976.
- Transcripts of interviews.
- Analysis of Wholesale Accounts.
- Interim Financial Reports.