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Records of Harrisons and Crosfield (Borneo) Limited; including minutes and agendas; correspondence with head office; papers regarding operations in Brunei; financial accounts; memoranda; correspondence concerning the general trading of the Company, the work of secretarial and agency companies in Borneo and the work of the Engineering Department; papers relating to political news in Borneo; and financial accounts of sub-branches.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or 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).

Records of Harrisons and Crosfield (Holdings) Limited, including minute book and general papers regarding registration and shareholdings.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or 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).

Records of Harrisons and Crosfield (Hong Kong) Limited, including papers regarding the formation of the Company; correspondence relating to the general trading of the company; and papers relating to staff.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or 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).

Records of Harrisons and Crosfield (Pacific) Incorporated, comprising papers relating to the formation of the Company.

Papers of the Harrisons and Crosfield Equipment Company Limited relating to the formation of the company.

Records of Harrisons and Eastern Export Limited, tea exporters, including articles of association; minutes of meetings; annual reports; correspondence; financial accounts; and reports of visits to tea traders.

Records of Harrisons Lister Engineering Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; correspondence; memoranda; reports; and financial accounts.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or 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).

Records of Coconut Products Limited, including articles of association, correspondence; financial accounts; and photographs of work at the factory in Papua New Guinea.

Records of Holyrood Rubber Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports and circulars to shareholders.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of Kellas Limited, comprising board and general meetings minute book.

Papers of the Kulai Rubber Estate Limited relating to investments in Harrisons and Crosfield Limited companies.

Records of Langen (Java) Rubber Estates Company Limited, including articles of association, prospectuses and circulars to shareholders.

Records of the Lankat Rubber Company Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or 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).

The records of general merchants Steel Brothers and Company Limited mainly comprise annual reports and accounts, photographs and unpublished histories.

Records of solicitors Richard Brunskill; George Sutton and Mark Merriman. The records comprise financial material and correspondence.

Records collected by James Thomas and Thomas Powell, leather and hide factors, comprising leather brokers' trade circulars, tables of prices and sales reports.

Records of Welch, Margetson and Company Limited, menswear manufacturers, including memorandum and articles of association; Board minutes; correspondence; annual reports and accounts; photographs of offices in Australia and of staff at work in offices, shops, factories and laundry; file on products, process and other firms; advertising; catalogues and price lists; papers relating to staff clubs; papers relating to property; and notes on the history of the company.

Records of Wills, Faber and Dumas Limited comprising sea casualty books, 1916-20 and 1930-50; and a register of claims, 1932-54.

Records of Wilson, Sons and Company Limited, coal and steamship agency, and associated companies. The records include minutes; financial accounts; letter books; constitutional documents; historical notes; registers of members; annual reports; and agreements.

Minute book of the Associated Fire Insurers (Government Commodities) Management Committee.

Articles of agreement between Henry Ballow, citizen and dyer, and Eliazer Hasell, mercer, regulating the administration of their joint property and debts at the end of their partnership as mercers.

Personal account book of Richard Campbell Bazett, partner in Bruce de Ponthieu and Company, merchants and East India agents, listing his income from the partnership.

Account book of Thomas Blossom, coachbuilder, including costs and a detailed list of each stage of his work on repairing and building coaches and carriages of (named) gentry, 1809-14; summary entries of coach work, 1808-9; and Blossom's note of cargoes received at Tahiti and Eimeo (Windward Islands, French Polynesia) from the London Missionary Society, 1821-6.

Papers relating to sugar plantations on St Christopher (St Kitts), West Indies, owned by Boddington and Company, merchants.

Account book of undertaker Richard Carpender, containing copies of bills for individual funerals, 1764-5; ledger account of purchases such as coffins, coffin-plates, textiles, gloves, feathers, 1746-7; and accounts of corn bought for horse and of the hire of the horse for journeys from London, 1763-6.

Volume of rules, accounts, membership lists and minutes for the China Club, association of traders in China.

Records of the Robur Tea Company Limited, including articles of association, annual accounts, and summary of balances.

Records of Rubber Securities Limited, investment company, including articles of association, minutes of meetings, annual reports, circulars to shareholders, papers relating to the acquisition of the Company and statement of investment holdings.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or 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).

Records of Seaport (Selangor) Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.

Records of T.R.S. Company Limited, investment company, comprising articles of association and annual report and accounts.

Records 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).

Memorandum and articles of association for Universal Rubber Paviours Limited.

Records of the West Java Engineering Company including annual reports and accounts; correspondence; and general reports.

Memorandum and articles of association for Wilkinson Linatex (India) Limited.

Records 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).

Records of Herbert Chappell Limited, tailors, including pattern book, price list, self-measurement forms and notes on the history of the firm.

Records 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.

Records of Assam and African Investments Limited, including annual reports and financial records.

Records of the Bhooteachang Tea Company Limited, comprising annual reports with accounts.

Records 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.

Letters to C. S. Knight, insurance broker, concerning membership of a syndicate of Lloyd's of London underwriters.

Outgoing letters of John March, merchant trading with Turkey.

Papers of the Nassau Phosphate of Lime Company relating to a proposed sale of phosphate works, and of rights of boring for and carrying away phosphate, on land at Edelsberg and Freienfels, near Weilburg in Nassau, Germany, including descriptive records of inspections of the phosphate deposits and the mining property.

Letters from Norris and Collet, merchants, to their factor Henry Norris in Sweden.

Out-letter book of John Oldbury and Henry Stanley, merchants, containing copies of letters to ships' masters, agents, contacts and consignees, relating to business and private affairs.

Please note these are photostat copies; the whereabouts of the original is unknown.

Bad and doubtful debt book of Peirce and Tait, fish dealers.

Papers of Anthony Seal, glazier, including bills, receipts, executors' accounts, lists of debtors, and legal papers.

Records of Smith and Tilson, solicitors, comprising an account book of bills sent to clients, 1799, and a journal account of disbursements, 1799-1804, and clerk's expenses, 1799-1805, with some later entries to 1808.

Letter book of Stringer and Richardson, merchants and tea and spice dealers.

Financial ledgers of Thomas Handyside and Son, upholsterers.