Records of the Wandsworth and Putney Gas Light and Coke Company, 1834-1912, comprising deed of settlement and series of minute books for Directors Meetings and Shareholders Meetings.
Sans titreRecords of Lugg and Company Ltd, brick merchants, comprising financial ledgers, day books and financial account books.
Sans titreLondon related material from the Bryson Collection of Business Archives and Ephemera, 1760-1951:
- Records of Morgan Crucible Co Ltd comprising working instructions for Morgan's Coke Fired Tilting Furnace type "CCA" 400 lbs capacity, with drawings of furnace, 1942.
- Lease for 18 years from William Scott to Walker Norwood, mealman, of Twelve Acre Close (now 2 closes) in Hampton Wick, endorsed with agreement to let barn and rickyard, 1782 Mar - 1784 Apr.
- Duckham's Digest "Links", Vol X, No 2, published by Alexander Duckham and Co Ltd, with Festival of Britain guide, 1951.
- Probate copy of will of Samuel Myers of Golden Lane, colourman, proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1777 Aug.
- Marriage settlement between Sir Matthew Blakiston and Annabella Bayly relating to mansion at East Hill and other houses and lands in Wandsworth and Battersea, 1760 Mar.
- Deed poll by Charles Robert Edward Bell, match manufacturer of Albert House, Wandsworth, changing his surname from Grubb to Bell, with extract from The Times attached, 1880 Dec.
Papers of Airwork Limited relating to Heston Aerodrome, comprising two annotated copies of a plan entitled 'Heston Aerodrome: Survey of land to be purchased by Airwork Ltd. April 5th 1935' and two annotated Ordnance Survey maps of the area.
Sans titreThe surviving records of the Printers and Theatres Rating Committee (Southern Committee) are incomplete. They mostly concern the rating of individual risks. As a result, they contain much information about particular theatres, music halls, cinemas, film production studios, publishers, printers and allied trades (including papermakers), and associated processes and products. Some of the records are indexed by name and/or place. The whereabouts of the records of the Northern and Scottish Rating Committees is unknown.
Sans titreRecords of Abelheira Paper Mills Limited, consisting of constitutional documents, Board and general minutes, annual reports, and an inventory of land in Portugal. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreRecords of Grahams (Lisbon) Limited, general merchants and manufacturers, consisting of Board minutes, annual reports and a register of directors. The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.
Sans titreRecords of various tea or rubber companies, all later purchased by the Caparo Group. There are no records of Caparo Group Limited itself. The archives are catalogued under the names of the individual companies within the group. The companies are:
Assam Frontier Tea Company;
Budla Beta Tea Company;
Dooars Tea Company;
Empire of India and Ceylon Tea Company;
Empire of India Holdings Limited;
Lanka Plantation Company;
Oriental Rubber Company;
Singlo Tea Company;
Singlo Holdings Limited.
All the records are held offsite and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.
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 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 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 titreRecords of Daniel Desbois and Sons, watch and clockmakers, comprising a series of ledgers and a series of day books.
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 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 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 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.
Sans titreRecords of the Lumut Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, report of a visit to the estates, and circulars to shareholders.
Sans titrePapers of the Anglo-Maikop Group, oil mining company, and subsidiaries as follows:
Anglo-Maikop Corporation Ltd. (Mss 24054-62);
Kuban Black Sea Oilfields Ltd. (Mss 24063-8);
Kuban Refining Co. Ltd. (Mss 24069-74);
Black Sea Amalgamated Oilfields Ltd. (Mss 24075-7);
Levanovskoe Petroleum Co.Ltd. (Mss 24078-83);
Maikop Combine Ltd. (Mss 24084-90);
Maikop Midland Oilfields Ltd. (Mss 24091-6);
Maikop Pipeline and Transport Co. Ltd. (Mss 24097-103);
Maikop Refineries Ltd. (Mss 24104-9);
Maikop Valley Oil Co. Ltd. (Mss 24110-15).
The records include memoranda and articles of association; minutes; financial records and accounts; agreements; and reports.
Sans titrePapers of trader Richard Archedale, comprising journal of receipts and payments; and business and personal accounts.
Sans titreRecords of Arthur Brown and Company, comprising ledgers and financial material, wage books and sketch books of staff caricatures.
Sans titreRecords 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).
Sans titreRecords of Seaport (Selangor) Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.
Sans titreRecords of T.R.S. Company Limited, investment company, comprising articles of association and annual report and accounts.
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 titreMemorandum and articles of association for Wilkinson Linatex (India) Limited.
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 Herbert Chappell Limited, tailors, including pattern book, price list, self-measurement forms and notes on the history of the firm.
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 the Gourepore Company, manufacturers of jute, comprising memorandum and articles of association.
Sans titreRecords of J T Hart and Sons Limited, butchers, including financial accounts; purchase books; and illustrated brochures.
Sans titreRecords of J Tylor and Sons Limited, brass founders and manufacturers of sanitary appliances, including registers of patents granted to the company; specifications for water meters and sanitary appliances; patent certificates; certificates of registration of design, with designs attached; sales catalogues; and company histories.
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 Phoenix Oil and Transport Company Limited and its subsidiaries Unirea S. A. R. de Petrol; Arbanash (Roumania) Oil Company; Orion S.A.R. de Petrol; Roumanian Consolidated Oilfields Limited and Phoenix Oil Products Limited. The records include minutes, annual reports, financial accounts, correspondence, reports, maps, photographs, papers relating to sales, and papers relating to war damage.
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 the Prang Besar Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association; board minutes; annual reports; circulars to shareholders; report of a visit to the estate; register of rubber crop types; and papers regarding rubber yields.
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 Selaba Rubber Estates Limited, including annual reports and circulars to the shareholders.
Sans titreRecords of Straits Plantations Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; prospectuses; and out-letters.
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 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).
Sans titreRecords of Harrisons and Crosfield (Pacific) Incorporated, comprising papers relating to the formation of the Company.
Sans titreRecords 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).
Sans titreRecords of Kellas Limited, comprising board and general meetings minute book.
Sans titrePapers of the Kulai Rubber Estate Limited relating to investments in Harrisons and Crosfield Limited companies.
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