Correspondence and papers of the Technical Advisory and Service Company Limited.
Sans titreRecords of Toerangie (Sumatra) Rubber and Produce Estates Limited, including articles of association; minutes; annual reports and accounts; circulars; and a ledger.
Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sans titreMemorandum and articles of association for Universal Rubber Paviours Limited.
Sans titreRecords of the West Java Engineering Company including annual reports and accounts; correspondence; and general reports.
Sans titreRecords of the Wilkinson Process Rubber Company Limited, including minutes; articles of association; annual reports and accounts; correspondence; papers relating to shareholders; reports relating to production, distribution and trading.
Access to records less than 30 years old (and to records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sans titreRecords of Wilkinson Rubber Linatex Limited, including articles of association; minutes; annual reports; correspondence and cables; financial accounts; analysis of sales; and promotional pamphlet.
Access to records less than 30 years old (and to records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sans titreRecords of the Holford family, lawyers. Although the records relate to litigation in Chancery, they concern both the Holfords' professional activities as practising lawyers, and their private litigation as substantial landowners in Gloucestershire and Somerset and in connection with large sums of money which they placed out at interest.
The collection includes records relating to Sir Richard Holford's manor of Southover and Nyland near Wells in Somerset, 1667-1717 (Ms 15588). The division between these two professional and private fields of activity is indistinct, particularly in view of the known speculative practices of masters in Chancery with the funds of the suitors of the court.
Furthermore, a number of the papers of Sir Thomas Estcourt (fl 1660-80) appear to have become incorporated into the archive, probably having been transferred to Sir Richard Holford on Estcourt's retirement or death.
Sans titreRecords of the Imperial Continental Gas Association, including:
- Deeds of settlement, Acts of Parliament (Mss 23319-326);
- Directors' minutes and other papers (Mss 23327-340);
- General (Shareholders) meetings minutes and annual reports and accounts (Mss 23341-345);
- Secretary's papers (Mss 23346-376);
- Accounts (Mss 23377-413);
- Gas and electricity contracts:
Belgium (Mss 23414-424),
France (Mss 23425-30),
Germany (Mss 23431-432),
Netherlands (Mss 23433-434),
Roumania (Ms 23435); - Staff records (Mss 23436-442, Mss 31767-8);
- Property records (gas works, offices etc):
Austria-Hungary (Mss 23443-445),
Belgium (Mss 23446-66),
Germany (Ms 23467),
Netherlands (Ms 23468),
London (Ms 23449-74); - Notes for company histories (Ms 23475-480);
- Annual reports and accounts of subsidiaries (Mss 23481-482).
Records of the Bhooteachang Tea Company Limited, comprising annual reports with accounts.
Sans titreRecords of Binny and Company Limited, steamship agency, traders, textile mill operators and engineers, including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; investment ledgers; correspondence; memoranda; papers regarding company history; and photographs of staff, offices and works.
Sans titreRecords of the Dalhousie Jute Company, comprising annual report and accounts for 1933.
Sans titreRecords of Delmege, Forsyth and Company Limited, import/export shipping agents, comprising memorandum and articles of association; memorandum of capital; and general ledgers.
Sans titreRecords of Dodwell and Company Limited, importers, exporters and shipping agents, including board minutes; register of directors; annual reports; financial accounts; private notebooks of George Benjamin Dodwell (relating to the business); correspondence; company handbook; publicity material; newspaper cuttings; photographs; and personal papers of George Benjamin Dodwell.
Sans titreRecords of Duncan Macneill and Company, including partnership deeds; correspondence; financial accounts; annual reports; agreements; and valuations of tea companies managed by the company.
Records of J. B. Barry and Son, including partnership deeds, correspondence and financial accounts.
Records of both companies including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; maps of tea gardens; goods ledger; produce ledger; tea companies' ledger; correspondence and legal papers.
Also records of John Mackinnon's trusts and Duncan Macneill's trusts.
Sans titreRecords of Gilman (Holdings) Limited, comprising memoranda and agendas for meetings.
Sans titreRecords of the Greenwood Tea Company Limited, including articles of association and financial records including details of tea sold and seasonal expenses at the tea gardens.
Sans titreKalline Tea Company Limited records comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1926-48 (Ms 27771); and accounts, 1927-71 (Ms 27772-4).
Sans titreKilburn, Brown and Company Limited records comprise: partnership deeds and agreement, 1943-59 (Ms 27775-6); accounts, 1938-66 (Ms 27777-81); and correspondence, 1947-60 (Ms 27782).
Sans titreRecords of MacKinnon, MacKenzie and Company, general merchants and agents of Calcutta, India; comprising: partnership deeds and other records concerning the establishment and regulation of the company, 1854-1955 (Ms 27793-6, 27838-41); private journals, 1929-51 (Ms 27797); correspondence, 1852-1955 (Ms 27798-814) operational records, 1847-1940 (Ms 27815-27); photographs, ca. 1905-31 (Ms 27828-8A); historical notes, c 1860-1955 (Ms 27829-34, 27847); and accounts, 1927-51 (Ms 27835-7, Ms 27842-6, 27848).
Sans titreRecords of the Mjagram Tea Company, comprising memorandum and articles of association.
Sans titreMediterranean Transport Company Limited records comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1906-48 (Ms 27896); directors' and shareholders' minutes, 1906-54 (Ms 27897); AGM agendas, 1926-42 (Ms 27898); annual reports and accounts, 1926-58 (Ms 27899;) and accounts 1925-33 (Ms 27902).
Sans titreSalonah Tea Company Limited records comprise: directors' and shareholders' minute books, 1885-1956 (Ms 28106); and financial accounts, 1885-1978 (Ms 28107-11).
Sans titreRecords of the Institute of Meat, a training body for the UK meat industry, comprising constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, administrative and estate papers.
Sans titreRecords of Gordon L Jacobs and Company, stockbrokers, including partner and private client ledgers, share certificates and other financial material, correspondence, reports and agreements.
The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access. Some records are subject to a 75 year closure period.
Sans titreBusiness archives of Victor Kullberg, watch and chronometer maker, comprising: operational and financial records, 1857-1947 (Ms 14537-42, 14546-54), and correspondence 1871-1930 (Ms 14543-4).
Sans titreRecords of Legal and General (Unit Pensions) Limited, comprising minutes of annual general meetings and annual reports and accounts.
Sans titreRecords of Legal and General Investment Trust Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; annual reports and accounts; register of directors and secretaries; register of directors' holdings; and financial records.
Sans titrePapers of the Reconstruction and Planning Committee of the London Brewer's Council, comprising files of correspondence and reports relating to the distribution and redevelopment of public houses in the Greater London area, 1944-86, with a box contents list and card index.
Sans titreRecords of Billingsgate Cold Stores Limited, comprising financial accounts.
Sans titreNational Federation of Inland Wholesale Fish Merchants records comprise rules (Ms 19848), consitution and rules (Ms 19849), minutes (Ms 19850) and annual accounts and balance sheets (Ms 19851).
Sans titreMinutes of board meetings of the London Produce Clearing House Limited.
Sans titrePapers of John Michie, director of the East India Company, and Jonathan Michie, wine merchant, comprising personal and East India Company papers, including correspondence, accounts, receipts and memoranda.
Sans titreRecords of Morgan Grenfell and Company Limited, merchant bankers, and their predecessors; comprising ledgers, journals, letter books, correspondence and other papers.
Access to all the records is restricted to persons with written permission from the depositor (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sans titreRecords of Pember and Boyle, stock and share brokers, including ledgers, and records of stock prices and yields.
Details of how to access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from a member of staff.
Sans titreRecords of Morrison, Cryder and Company, London-American and general merchants, comprising: correspondence, 1834-55; accounts, 1836-49; shipping papers, 1836-9; legal papers, 1832-1851; insurance papers, 1837-1848; reports, 1846; and dividend lists, 1837-1839.
Sans titreNational Mutual Life Assurance Society records include constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, seal books, reports, policy records and other administrative papers. 24 hours notice is required for access to this material. The records are subject to a 30 year rule: the permission of the depositor is required for access to material less than 30 years old (ask a member of staff for further information).
Sans titreMutual Life Assurance Society records comprise constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, records of policies and claims, and other administrative records. Some series were maintained by National Mutual after the merger.
24 hours notice is required for access to this material.
Sans titreWhittington Life Assurance Company records comprise constitutional documents, records of policies, prospectuses and other administrative material. 24 hours notice is required for access to this material.
Sans titreNew River Company records comprising: transcript of the 1619 charter, made 1696; agreement for the supply of water, 1692, and inventory of the records of the company, 1686.
Sans titreCollection of deeds and papers relating to the site of Nomura House, no.1 St Martin le Grand (the former General Post Office building). The Library does not hold any records relating to the Nomura's operation as a Japanese bank; the only records held relate to the site of Nomura House.
The collection also includes deeds which do not appear to relate to the site of no.1 St Martin le Grand, although they may have been acquired by the Postmaster General.
Sans titreBusiness and social correspondence of Edward Oates, attorney, of Leeds and Furnival's Inn.
Sans titreRecords of the Pandan Tea Company comprising: board minute books, 1933-69; and annual general meetings minutes, 1934-71.
Sans titreRecords of Parkinson and Frodsham, clock and watch makers, comprising a watch manufacturing book 1872-1925; a register of clocks and watches supplied to retailers 1866-1914 and a record of retail sales 1911-4; clock and watch repair books 1937-45; customer accounts 1923-40 and 1932-45 and lists of customers and manufacturers in the clock and watch trade [1900-1941].
Sans titreRecords of Orion SAR de Petrol, petroleum company, comprising report on war damage sustained in 1916 and the resulting compensation claim.
Sans titreThe records of Roumanian Consolidated Oilfields Limited comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1912; papers regarding amalgamations with other companies, 1912-3; minutes of board meetings, 1912-41; directors' annual reports and accounts, 1912-38 and accounts for 1937; ledger, journal and cash book, 1918-39; reports on company property, 1912; accounts of destruction of company oilwells, 1917.
Sans titreRecords of Press Association Limited, including:
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Corporate records (including articles of association, agreements and minutes);
- Share records (including P.A. Share Purchase Company);
- Internal administration records;
- Financial records;
- Operational records (including the Press Association and Exchange Telegraph Service);
- Staff records;
- Records relating to correspondents;
- Property records;
- Other Press Association records (including histories of the Association);
- Central News;
- Reuters;
- P.A. Features Limited;
- Press Association Photos Limited.
Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from the Press Association (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Records of Prideaux and Sons, solicitors, comprising day books 1855-1941; cash, petty cash and disbursement accounts 1847-1924 and letter books 1898-1921.
Sans titreRecords of the Prudential Assurance Company Limited relating to property in the City of London owned by the Company, including sales particulars, sales agreements, abstracts of title and plans.
Sans titreRecords of Robert Howden Limited, pharmacist, comprising prescription books and a ledger.
Sans titreThe records comprise memorandum and articles of association, minutes, instructions for agents and financial records.
Sans titre