GB 0074 CLC/B/080
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Collection
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1855-1987
Records of news agency Exchange Telegraph Company Limited, including:
- Constitution; operating agreements, Mss 22956-61;
- Board and AGM minutes etc; annual reports and accounts, Mss 22962-9;
- Papers relating to lawsuits, Mss 22970-4;
- Internal financial and accounting records, Mss 22975-23012;
- Records of subscribers, Mss 23013-24;
- Correspondence (subdivided as follows):
(i) Miscellaneous early correspondence, Mss 23025-7;
(ii) Correspondence etc relating to dealings with the London Stock Exchange, Mss 23028-32;
(iii) Correspondence etc concerning the sports services, chiefly horse racing, Mss 23033-41;
(iv) Correspondence etc concerning relations with the Press Association Ltd, Mss 23042-8. 10;
(v) Papers of Wilfred King (chairman 1913-43), Mss 23049-51;
(vi) Papers of E C Barker (a director, 1913-33), Mss 23052-61;
(vii) Correspondence relating to arrangements with the BBC, Ms 23062;
(viii) Foreign correspondence (including Second World War correspondence), Mss 23063-6;
(ix) Correspondence concerning tariff rates, Ms 23067; - Examples of news transmitted and statistics service cards, Mss 23068-74;
- Engineering and patents records, Mss 23075-94;
- Publicity records, eg tariffs, circulars and application forms, Mss 23095-102;
- Records of correspondents, wages and commissions, Mss 23103-6;
- Photographs, Mss 23107-15;
- News cuttings, Mss 23116-25;
- Miscellaneous (chiefly historical notes and records of subsidiaries), Mss 23126-35;
- Records of the joint services of ETC and the Press Association Ltd, Mss 23136-57;
- Miscellaneous items presented by BT Archives, Ms 38642.