Records of discount bankers Smith St Aubyn and Company Limited, comprising ledgers and general ledgers 1891-1954, ledgers of partners' and trustees' accounts 1930-1939, trade acceptors ledgers 1927-1955, cash books 1891-1960, daybooks and rough daybooks 1891-1958, journals 1946-50, loans books and ledgers 1932-1952, private accounts loans and interest books 1931-1952, bills books 1891-1892 and 1933-1956, business and appointments diaries 1891-1959.
Sin títuloRecords of Hermes Securities Limited including minutes of the board, directors reports and accounts and register of members and share register. Also includes minutes and directors reports and accounts for Hermes Credit Corporation Limited (CLC/B/207/MS40937 - MS40941).
Sin títuloLondon and South African Bank records comprise: charters of incorporation, 1860, 1864-5; general ledgers, 1869-77; deed of settlement, 1861; correspondence, 1867-8; and contract of service, 1864.
Sin títuloRecords of E D Sassoon Banking Company Limited including a property register and deeds relating to 46 Dorset Mews, Westminster and 46 Grosvenor Place, Westminster including leases, covenants, assignments, counterpart leases and abstracts. Some deeds date back to 1856 as they relate to the change in ownership of the properties before they were acquired by the Sassoon family, E D Sassoon and Company Limited or E D Sassoon Banking Company Limited.
Sin títuloRecords of E D Sassoon and Company Limited including combined register of shares.
Sin títuloRecords of E D Sassoon and Company Limited including correspondence files relating to business links and investment in South Africa; and copy judgement.
Sin títuloRecords of the National Bank of India including one indexed ledger of government securities, detailing name of account holder, date of loan, amount loaned and loan number and certificates for Henry Chalmers of Shanghai and Frank Elliot of Bush Lane House, Cannon Street, London authorising the Manager, Sub-Manager and Accountant of the Calcutta Branch of the National Bank of India to act on their behalf if necessary. Both signed by the appointees and Clerks of the bank.
Sin títuloRecords of the P & O Banking Corporation including records created at the foundation of the company, records and reports of the annual meetings of the company, and records dealing with the liquidation of the Corporation.
Sin títuloRecords of P & O Banking Corporation including the legal files of the bank (under the responsibility of the General Manager) and files on the liquidation of the Corporation.
Sin títuloRecords of P & O Banking Corporation including legal documents of corporate clients, and signature registers of individual account holders. Does not include detailed customer financial information.
Sin títuloRecords of P & O Banking Corporation including regulations and legal agreements. These contain no information on individual staff except signatures (apart from R Douglas Butterfield's file).
Sin títuloRecords of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including Corporate Development Department correspondence, memos, draft agreements, Wallace Brothers balance sheets and company structures concerning acquisition of Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited.
Records of Business Archives Council survey of historical records of the bank and predecessors including lists correspondence and records on premises and historical records held.
Sin títuloRecords of Standard Bank Ghana Limited including inward and outward letter books.
Sin títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including the first Memorandum and Articles of Association and Reports and Accounts for 1969
Sin títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including Code of Employment Practice.
Sin títuloRecords of Standard Bank Finance and Development Corporation Limited including the founding Memorandum and Articles of Association for the Corporation.
Sin títuloRecords of Standard Bank of West Africa Limited including the Annual Report for 1973.
Sin títuloRecords of Wills, Faber and Dumas Limited comprising sea casualty books, 1916-20 and 1930-50; and a register of claims, 1932-54.
Sin títuloMinute book of the Associated Fire Insurers (Government Commodities) Management Committee.
Sin títuloGeneral foreign out-letter book of Heckscher and Pearson, commission merchants and underwriters.
Sin títuloLetters to C. S. Knight, insurance broker, concerning membership of a syndicate of Lloyd's of London underwriters.
Sin títuloDraft deed of settlement establishing the Wellington Reversionary Annuity and Life Assurance Society; with papers relating to the sale of all their assets, policies, and property to the India and London Life Assurance Company.
Sin títuloThe grant of arms and grant of livery of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries, 1980.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.
Sin títuloPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising an agreement settling a dispute as to boundary line dividing plot of land no. 22, owned by Edwin Brier Woodford, from plot no. 21, owned by George Allen Aylwin, on Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, 1904; and assignment of debt of £36 15s. 3d. due to George Slark from Cuthbert Coates Smith and Bernard Edgar Aylwin, carrying on business as motor boat manufacturers under style of The Vaal Motor and Launch Company at Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, 1905.
Sin títuloInsurance policy upon passengers' effects, to be shipped on the "Rhone" from London to Algoa Bay, Cape Province, South Africa, taken out by A. F. Evans, 1894.
Sin títuloPapers of Parnel Seaton, including letters, receipts for payments, assessments for tax on houses, servants, carriages, horses, dogs, hair powder and armorial bearnings, and certificates of assessments for property in Twickenham.
Sin títuloRecords of Joshua Alexander, solicitor and property developer, recording the drawing up of building agreements and the granting of leases of the resulting houses. None of the agreements or leases survive but the pattern of development can be traced through the accounts of advances for building and the ground rents received for leases.
Building agreements and lease books: These books record cash advances made by Joshua Alexander and his business partner William Bradshaw under building agreements for the development of their various estates. When leases were granted of newly erected houses, ground rents received under them were likewise recorded. Apart from including names of lessees and addresses of property leased, the books are heavily annotated with references to court proceedings, assignments of interests and other actions necessary for administrating estates. Each book is indexed under names of tenants.
Rentals: These record the payment of ground rents by lessee of houses on the various estates described above. Each rental is arranged by estate and contains name and address of lessee or assignee, address of property rented, amount of ground rent due and summaries of totals..
Letter books: family and personal letters. Copies of letters from Lionel Alexander of personal and family nature, many concerning involvement with Jewish institutions, charities and general affairs, also copies of letters to press and articles.
Sin títuloRecords of the Prudential Assurance Company relating to property, 1882-1947, including draft and copy deeds, abstracts of title, agreements, contracts, plans, correspondence and other papers regarding ground rents in Croydon, Westminster, Holborn, City of London, Teddington, Winchmore HIll, Tooting, Fulham, Muswell Hill, Hornsey and Richmond.
Sin títuloFinancial records of the Blue Nile Brewery Limited, including balance sheets; correspondence; budgets; cash forecasts; remuneration file; excise duty files and financial accounts.
Sin títuloCorporate records of Camwal Limited, soft drinks manufacturers, including share records; articles of association and reports.
Sin títuloCorporate records of the Dartford Brewery Company Limited, including board meetings minutes; annual general meeting minutes; stockholders' meetings minutes; registers of directors, secretaries, members, shares, mortgages and deeds; share records; articles of association; annual and half-yearly reports, statistics and accounts.
Sin títuloCorporate records of Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including minutes of Board and general meetings; minutes of joint committee with the Dartford Brewery and the Royal Brewery Brentford; registers of members, shares, mortgages, sealing, and directors; trust deeds; articles of association; directors' reports and accounts; and agreements.
Sin títuloProperty records for Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including joint diary with the Royal Brewery Brentford and Dartford Brewery recording notes on premises and public houses; register of insurance for public houses; order book for repairs; tenants dilapidation registers; and repairs ledger.
Sin títuloCorporate records of Courage and Company Limited, brewers, including Directors' meetings minute books; general meetings minute books; papers of the Board; papers of the Secretary; records of the Investment Committee; register of appeals; register of directors' holdings; articles of association; seal register; powers of attorney; papers relating to company formation; papers relating to the liquidation of Farnham United Brewery; and annual reports.
Sin títuloFinancial records of Courage and Company Limited, brewers, including balance sheet ledgers; balance and stock sheets; annual costings; accounts ledgers; analyses; journals; cash books; deposits and withdrawals; bills and general financial papers.
Sin títuloSales records of Courage and Company Limited, including Sales Committee minutes; trading figures; trade books; records of supplies; prices and charges; records of beer bought and sold; records of beer recieved; purchase and adjustment account papers; sales summaries; delivery records; licences, agreements and contracts.
Sin títuloRecords of Charles Kinloch and Company Limited, wine merchants, including Board minutes; share transfers; sales figures; printed reports; papers relating to mergers; correspondence and papers relating to financial matters; and price lists.
Sin títuloCorporate records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, including Directors' meetings minute book; Board and general meeting minute book; annual general meeting minute book; registers of members, shares, debentures, mortgages, directors, secretaries, seals and directors' holdings; articles of association; agreements; trust deeds; papers relating to stocks and shares; annual reports with accounts; and letter books.
Sin títuloRecords of Horselydown Property Investment Company Limited, including Board minutes and papers; progress reports to the Board; papers relating to shares, dividends and investments; papers relating to development work at company properties; financial papers including audit correspondence and cash forecasts.
Sin títuloRecords of the Star Brewery Company Limited, including correspondence and papers; memorandum of association (Oct 1886) with articles of association (Sept 1966); draft agreement for sale to Courage, Barclay and Simonds 1967; papers relating to shares; and report and valuation for Courage, Barclay and Simonds.
Sin títuloRecords of Courage Limited, brewers, including notifications of agreements of various kinds to the EEC and bundle of blank John Smith's agreements; decimalization manual including copy of Decimalization Committee minutes; plans for a proposed office block, Park Street; plans for re-location of staff at Anchor Terrace; and floor plans, Anchor Terrace.
Sin títuloRecords of the Surrey Tabernacle Benefit Society, including Management Committee minutes; subscriptions and benefits books; sick pay books; audited accounts; register of deaths; correspondence; and death benefit nominations.
Sin títuloPapers of banker David Francis Park including correspondence, newspaper cuttings, notes and other material relating to banks and banking.
Sin títuloRecords of Engelbert Pickert, merchant, comprising a ledger, 1860-4; ships' and ships' insurance papers, 1867-70; and family papers, including the private accounts of Maria Pickert, his widow, 1851-85.
Sin títuloPapers and correspondence of George Rae, banker, relating to various banking topics including the Companies Act of 1879, and the Institute of Bankers.
Sin títuloThe Accepting Houses Committee did not keep minutes of its meetings until 1920 "owing to the secrecy of many of the matters dealt with" (Ms 29295/1). Business was mainly carried out by the executive committee (Ms 29295), although annual general meetings were held for a short time, from 1939 to 1944 (Ms 29294). A number of standing and sub-committees were set up subsequently. The earliest was the Technical or Experts sub-committee in 1940 (Ms 29298); other committees, concerning such matters as export finance and computers, were established in the 1970s (Mss 29298-305).
Apart from minutes and associated papers, the main series of records of the Committee comprise reports and accounts (Mss 29306-7), circulars (Mss 29308-9) and membership files (Ms 29310). Among the remaining records (Mss 29311-327) there are a number of files relating to the role and future of the Committee at various points in its existence, and discussions about the criteria for membership.
Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from the London Investment Banking Association (contact details may be obtained from staff).
Sin títuloRecords of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, as follows:-
Ms 17363 - Articles of association;
Mss 17364-7 - Affiliated chambers, United Kingdom and overseas;
Mss 14476-7 - Executive council;
Mss 14478-9, 14485, 17394-5 - Standing, advisory and special committees;
Mss 17368-72 - General purposes committee;
Mss 17373-83 - Internal organisation, personnel and visitors;
Mss 17384-6 - Circulars and out-letter files;
Mss 17387 - Meeting with Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Finance and taxation division:-
Mss 14480 -1 - committee minutes;
Ms 17388 - circulars;
Mss 17389-93 - press releases and newsletters;
Mss 17394-475 - subject files, listed alphabetically;
Ms 17476 - printed booklets.
Home affairs division:-
Mss 14482-4 - committee minutes;
Ms 17477 - circulars;
Mss 14485 and Ms 17478-94 - education committee papers and education subject files;
Mss 14488 and Ms 17495-9 - post office services committee papers and postal subject files;
Mss 17500-1 - power committee papers and power and fuel subject file;
Mss 14485-6 and Ms 17502-37 - transport committee papers and transport subject files;
Mss 17538-50 - other subject files, listed alphabetically;
Ms 17551 - printed booklets.
Overseas division:-
Mss 14487 and 17552 - committee minutes and papers;
Ms 17553 - circulars;
Mss 17554-63 - subject files, listed alphabetically;
Mss 17564-83 - correspondence and papers relating to outside bodies and other trade organisations;
Ms 17584 - files labelled miscellaneous;
Mss 17585-8 - printed booklets;
Mss 17589-93 - Association of Secretaries of British Chambers of Commerce.
Mss 17593/A-C Statistics and report.
In addition to the committee minutes, the five series of circulars (Mss 17384, 17388, 17477, 17553 and 17592) will be found to supplement the subject files which form the bulk of the Association's archives.
Also papers of the National Chamber of Trade, including minutes, register of members, circulars, press cuttings and handbooks.
Sin títuloRecords of predecessors of the Association of British Insurers, comprising:
- Accident Offices Association (Overseas);
- Accident Offices Association;
- Aircraft Insurance Committee;
Association of Life Assurance Offices in India; - British Insurance Association;
-British Life Assurance Trust; - Building Society Indemnities Committee;
- Coal Pool;
- Consequential Loss Committee;
- Debris Clearance Pool;
- Engineering Offices Association;
- Fire Offices' Committee;
- Fire Offices Committee (Foreign);
- Fire Offices Committee of Ireland;
- Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association;
- Home Office Vehicles Pool;
- Industrial Life Offices Association;
- Insurance Companies (War Settlement) Committee;
- Life Offices' Association;
- South African Accident Council;
- London Australasian Insurance Committee;
- London Continental Fire Insurance Committee;
- London Fire Engine Establishment;
- London Salvage Corps;
- London South African Insurance Committee;
- London West Africa Insurance Committee;
- London Wharf and Warehouse Committee;
- National Amalgamated Approved Society;
- National Conference of Industrial Assurance Approved Societies;
- Printers and Theatres Rating Committee (Southern Committee);
- Trading with the Enemy Joint Insurance Committee.
PLEASE NOTE: further minutes and files of the British Insurance Association and files of other predecessor bodies, along with minutes and files of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) from 1985-2000, remain uncatalogued. The uncatalogued records are available by prior appointment only quoting accession reference B11/056. In addition access requests to ABI records from 1985-2000 are subject to prior permission from ABI. Please contact staff for further details.
Sin títuloMinute book of the Debris Clearance Pool Committee.
Sin títuloMinute books of the Engineering Offices Association, an association of engineering insurers.
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