Minutes of the Lanka Plantation Company Limited.
Sans titreRecords of Singlo Holdings Limited, comrpising minutes of the Board of Directors and annual general meetings.
Sans titrePapers of Charles Cox and Son, marine agents, comprising eight volumes of letters from Royal Navy and Royal Marine personnel concerning pay and other financial matters.
Sans titreRecords of Charles Frodsham and Company, chronometer, clock and watch makers. The records comprise minutes of the board of directors 1893-1939 and annual general meetings 1894-1939 (Ms 19904); a ledger 1939-55 (Ms 19905), and watch manufacturing books 1876-1910 and 1895-7 (Ms 19906-7).
Sans titreRecords of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, comprising constitutional documents, minutes, correspondence (notably about International Banking summer schools), and photographs. Access to post 1980 material is restricted. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreRecords of wood brokers Churchill and Sim Limited, primarily diaires kept by Charles Churchill senior (1785-1844), and Charles Churchill junior (1823-1905), but also a letter book. The entries in the diaries relate to the timber trade, City politics and private affairs.
Sans titreThe papers of Abbott, Clayton and Morris consist of the business and family records of two generations and form one of the earliest and largest extant collections of Stuart-era financial records. There are also related records of Sir George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1648-1689), a close personal friend of Robert Clayton. (Clayton was appointed by Jeffreys as a trustee of his family settlement drawn up in 1689.) Jeffreys was Common Serjeant (1671-1678) and Recorder of London (1678-1680).
Sans titrePapers of the Coal Meters' Committee, including minutes, letter books, cash books, ledgers, books of notices and orders, ships' registers, records of coal exports and imports, and papers relating to the reorganisation of the Coal Meters' Office.
The records of the Coal Meters' Benefit Society, the Coal Meters' Provident Club and the Coal Meters' Office Protection Branch also form part of the archives of the Coal Meters' Committee. The Benefit Society records consist chiefly of minutes, resolutions touching amendments to the constitution, statements of account and correspondence relating to the Coal Meters' Benefit Society and Widows' Aid Fund. The Provident Club records contain a copy of rules, nomination form counterfoil book and account book. The Protection Branch records consist of annual reports, ledger accounts and cash books.
Sans titreBoard minute books of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation.
Records held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreBoard minutes of the General Accident and Guarantee Company Limited.
The minutes are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreRecords of the Indemnity Marine Insurance Company Limited, including consitutional documents, minutes, financial material, letterbooks and some details of ships and cargoes.
Sans titreRecords of the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company, comprising articles of association and minute books only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreRecords of the Palatine Insurance Company Limited, comprising Board, annual general meeting and Committee minute books only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreRecords of the Planet Assurance Corporation Limited, comprising scrapbooks of printed material and Directors' minutes only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreMinute book of the Scottish Metropolitan Life Assurance Company.
Sans titreBoard minute books of Westminster and Kensington Freeholds Limited.
Sans titreRecords of Daniel Desbois and Sons, watch and clockmakers, comprising a series of ledgers and a series of day books.
Sans titreRecords of Thomas Denny, corn dealer, comprising day books and rough accounts.
Sans titreRecords of Edmund Schluter and Company, general merchants, including letter books; ledgers; cash books; journals; sales books; purchase books; and waste books.
Sans titreRecords of Edward Grace and Company, brokers and merchants, comprising correspondence and accounts.
Sans titreRecords of the Equitable Reversionary Interest Society including out-letter books; deeds of settlement; minute books; annual reports; ledgers; registers of valuations of reversions; registers of recoveries; and registers of debentures.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Records of Foster and Braithwaite, stockbrokers, which comprise ledgers, journals and subscription books.
Sans titreRecords of George Jesse Dawson and his son Percy George Dawson, antique clock case makers and restorers. The records comprise job books and accounts.
Sans titreRecords of G S Herbert and Sons, stockbrokers, including ledgers, balance sheets, cash books, journals, and loan books. Also ledgers of stockbrokers G B Tydd and Company and Montagu Nicholas and Company.
24 hours notice required for access. Access to records less than 50 years old requires permission, details should be sought from staff.
Sans titreThe records of Galloway and Pearson, stockbrokers, comprise: deed of partnership and takeover agreements 1983-4 (Ms 38959-61); minutes 1966-84 (Ms 38962, 38967); correspondence regarding takeover 1984 (Ms 38963); accounts 1922-84 (Ms 38964-5) and option dealing books 1960-2 (Ms 38966).
PLEASE NOTE THAT PARTNERS' MINUTES (MS 38962) ARE SUBJECT TO A 40-YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD.
Sans titreRecords of George Attenborough and Son, pawnbrokers and jewellers, comprising receipt books of items pawned and sales book.
Sans titreRecords of Gilbert Samuel and Company, solicitors, comprising general ledgers (internal and clients' accounts) 1934-1949 (Mss 24202-3), cash journals 1934-1957 (Ms 24204) and private ledgers 1902-1963 (Ms 24205).
Sans titreRecords of Associated Cable Companies, comprising accounts, journals and cash books.
Sans titreMinutes of board meetings of the British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company Limited.
Sans titreRecords of the Direct Spanish Telegraph Company Limited comprising memorandum and articles of association with a special resolution.
Sans titreRecords of Electra House Limited, property management company. The records comprise minutes of board meetings, minutes of annual general meetings, Directors' annual report and accounts, journals, ledgers and cash books.
Sans titreRecords of Goschens and Cunliffe, merchants and bankers, comprising out-letter books, telegram books and register of policies. Also records of predecessor Fruhling, Goschens and Company, comprising letters to their agent in Germany.
Sans titreThe London Corn Exchange Importers Association archive comprises minutes of executive committee and general meetings.
Sans titreUnited Associations Limited records comprise: minutes of the board, 1923-1966 (Ms 23250); and financial accounts including ledgers and cash books, 1923-1967 (Ms 23251-5).
Sans titreAtlas Assurance Company Limited archives comprise records relating to the regulation of the company 1814, 1890 (Mss 16155-6); agreement for acquisition of Essex and Suffolk Equitable Insurance Company 1911 (Ms 16157); agreements with various companies 1902-60 (Mss 16158-163); share records 1808-1947 (Ms 16164-7); minutes 1807-1963 (Mss 16169-171); register of attendance at court meetings 1889-1919 (Ms 16173); financial records 1808-1953 (Ms 16172, 16174-5); annuity ledger 1894-1900 (Ms 18091); register of agents' appointments 1897-1912 (Ms 16176); correspondence of New York agent 1895-1908 (Ms 24469); deeds of covenant etc 1814-1959 (Ms 16177) and title deeds 1741-1955 (Ms 16178-9).
Please note that Ms 16168 has been returned to the depositor.
Sans titreState Assurance Company Limited records comprise share records 1891-1955 (Mss 16255, 16257-8), minutes 1891-1944 (Ms 16259) and miscellaneous papers 1917-29 (Ms 16256).
Sans titreMinutes of the United British Insurance Company Limited.
Sans titreRecords of Guinness, Mahon and Company, mainly comprising correspondence between partners, but there are also memorandum and articles of association, 1956-1966 (Ms 38588); agreements and related papers, 1856-1893 (Ms 38589); board minutes and interim accounts, 1966-8 (Ms 38590); and papers relating to the Guinness family, 1924-69 (Ms 38612).
Henry Samuel Howard Guinness (1888-1975), usually referred to in the papers as "S.G.", was a director of Guinness and Mahon Limited, Dublin, and a senior partner in Guinness, Mahon and Company, London. It appears that he wrote many of the notes on the history of the firm and the Guinness family which can be found in this collection. Some of the bundles and files of papers may also have been compiled by him.
Sans titreRecords of U. C. Farmer Limited, fishmonger, comprising articles of association and financial records.
Sans titrePapers relating to staffing at Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, including lists of staff; correspondence; papers relating to recruitment and training; papers relating to staffing such as holiday and training arrangements, staff who were held as prisoners of war, and disputes; and financial records relating to staff pensions and benefit schemes.
Files containing personal information about staff have a 70-year closure period.
Sans titreRecords of the Canada branch of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, including correspondence with head office; memoranda; and financial accounts.
Sans titreRecords of Abaco (Selangor) Rubber Limited, comprising circulars to shareholders and annual reports.
Sans titreRecords of C Leary and Company Limited relating to the purchase of the Company by Harrisons and Crosfields Securities Limited.
Sans titreRecords of the Central Sumatra Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; circulars to shareholders and a ledger.
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).
Sans titreRecords of Corrie MacColl and Son Limited, rubber dealers, including monthly financial statements and agreements.
Sans titreRecords of Crosfield, Lampard and Company, managers of tea and rubber plantations in Sri Lanka, including correspondence; financial accounts; and statements of tea shipments.
Sans titreRecords of Deli Estates Engineering and General Union Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; circulars to shareholders and a ledger.
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).
Sans titreRecords of the Durham Chemical Group, including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; correspondence; list of products sold and historical notes on the company.
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).
Sans titreRecords of Bukit Kajang Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association; annual reports and circulars to shareholders.
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