This is a collection of records of various companies involved in the trading of Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] and Indian teas. It consists of import registers for an un-named company, auction catalogues for private trade teas and photographs of tea plantations, possibly in Ceylon, and the offices and staff of R.M. Holborn and Sons Limited, tea and coffee merchants.
Sem títuloPapers of Thomas Bowrey, sea captain and merchant, including ledger; correspondence; diaries; drawings; charts; and maps; relating to travel and trade in India, Africa, Holland, France, Batavia (Jakarta) and Persia (Iran); the "Coffree" language of Delagoa and the Telenga language; shipping insurance and Lloyd's coffee house; whaling; and piracy.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloRecords of Ganges Transport and Trading Company Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; annual statements of account; and half-yearly accounts.
Sem títuloRecords of merchants John Richards and John Rooke, comprising invoice and account of sales books.
Sem títuloRecords of George G Sandeman, Sons and Company Limited, wine shippers and cotton merchants, comprising financial records 1799-1812 and 1838-9; an order book 1792-1809; merchant bankers' ledger 1817-1819; letter books 1795-1797 and 1885-1887; shipment register 1869-72; trade circulars 1840-2; private account books of stocks and shares 1821-60; and a copy of a letter by George Sandeman dated 1790.
Sem títuloRecords of E D Sassoon and Company Limited including combined register of shares.
Sem títuloRecords of E D Sassoon and Company Limited including correspondence files relating to business links and investment in South Africa; and copy judgement.
Sem títuloThe records of general merchants Steel Brothers and Company Limited mainly comprise annual reports and accounts, photographs and unpublished histories.
Sem títuloPapers of John Motteux and Company, merchants, comprising letters from the company's agent in L'Orient (Brittany) and Paris.
Sem títuloOutgoing letters of John March, merchant trading with Turkey.
Sem títuloLetters from Norris and Collet, merchants, to their factor Henry Norris in Sweden.
Sem títuloOut-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.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloRecords 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).
Sem títuloRecords 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).
Sem títuloRecords of Whitbread International Limited, a subsidiary company of Whibread and Company Limited, brewers. Records include ledgers detailing Whitbread exports and ship stocks from the 1920s through to the 1970s along with advertising from the launch of various Whitbread products abroad most notably that of Mackeson Stout and Whitbread Premium Draught Beer.
Sem títuloRecords of the Anglo-Thai Corporation and predecessors; including partnership deeds; agreements; articles of association; Directors' minute books; press cuttings; annual reports; papers relating to shares; financial records; correspondence, tenders; employment contracts; deeds for property and photographs.
Sem títuloRecords of Gibb, Livingston and Company, merchants and agents, including articles of association, minutes of meetings, and financial records.
Sem títuloRecords of the London Chamber of Commerce including records of constitution, membership, administration, finances and so on; records of sections and committees relating to places, arranged alphabetically by place; records of sections and committees relating to subjects, arranged alphabetically by subject of substance. Included in this category are 'General' and 'Special' minute books which contain minutes of sections and committees relating to both places and subjects. Ask a member of staff for an index of the sections and committees whose minutes are contained in the 'General' and 'Special' minute books.
Sem títuloRecords of Arnhold and Company Limited including a profit and loss book, ledgers mainly relating to the business in China, journals and cash books.
Sem títuloRecords of merchants Stratton and Gibson (later known as Stratton, Gibson and Fuller) comprising two series of account books, 1798-1817.
Sem títuloRecords of East India and general merchants Tribble, Pearson and Company. The records comprise partnership and tenancy agreements 1914-1957, financial records 1940-72, records of sales and purchases, including correspondence and ledgers, 1929-72, correspondence regarding finance and insurance 1933-70, correspondence with customers 1941-1975, records relating to trade, including papers regarding trademarks, specification books of products and a trade association membership certificate, 1900-1970, correspondence regarding the destruction of the company office 1941-1943, advertising material c 1942 and c 1950, cable books, telegraphic code book and postage book 1897-1959.
The collection also includes a register of members of the International Produce Exchange (1926) Limited 1926-1927 and 1955-1956; its connection with the firm is unknown.
Sem títuloAccounts ledger of Lewis and Baily, merchants and shippers, 1711-12; with accounts of John Pope, merchant, 1716-17.
Sem títuloOutgoing letter book of Peter Bond Burgoyne and Company, wine importers.
Sem títuloAgreements for the hire of vessels at Bathurst, Australia, to the River Gambia Trading Company Limited.
Sem títuloRecords of Courage (Export) Limited, brewers, comprising board meeting minutes.
Sem títuloRecords of Agassiz, Son and Company, merchants, including partnership agreements; personal papers of Lewis Agassiz; yearly accounts and account books; bills and receipts; business letters from diverse suppliers including from Switzerland, France, Argentina, Uruguay, India, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy; and inventory of the offices.
Sem títuloRecords of the Anglo-Portuguese Bank Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; Board minutes; annual reports and accounts; correspondence; financial records; manager's files; some staff files; and communications with headquarters in Portugal.
Sem títuloRecords of Antony Gibbs and Sons Limited, merchants and foreign bankers, and their branches and subsidiaries. Records include papers relating to the Gibbs family; correspondence, letters and letter books; ledgers and other financial records; papers and correspondence of branches in Peru, Chile, Australia, the West Indies, New York, Bristol and Liverpool; memoranda; trading agreements; minutes and reports; papers relating to the guano business and papers relating to the iodine industry.
Correspondence with foreign branches will be found in a number of different points in the catalogue. A keyword search of the online catalogue by the name of the branch and 'Gibbs' is the easiest access to branch correspondence.
Sem títuloThe archives consist almost entirely of business and partnership correspondence of A.G. Wentworth Gray between 1856 and 1906. They therefore include some private and family material. The firm dealt in a wide variety of goods and cargoes. The records contain references to, inter alia: beef, pork, cocoa, flour, sugar, limes, molasses, rice and timber.
Access to Mss 21409, 21411, 21412 and 21413 is subject to special conditions: for further information please ask a member of staff.
Sem títuloThe records of Davis and Soper Limited, export merchants, comprise minutes, details of overseas staff appointments, and a volume of contracts of sales.
Sem títuloThe records of Grahams Trading Company Limited consist of constitutional documents, minutes of the Board, executive committee, and annual general meetings, annual reports and accounts, financial material, register of directors, press cuttings and title deeds. This collection is held offsite and requires 24 hours notice for access.
Sem títuloRecords of Harrisons and Crosfield (Holland) N.V., including articles of association; correspondence and memoranda; financial accounts; and papers concerning the liquidation of the company.
Access 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).
Sem títuloRecords of the companies making up the Inchcape Group, including:
- Adamson, Bell and Company: see Dodwell and Company;
- Adamson (W. R.) and Company: see Dodwell and Company;
- African Marine and General Engineering Company: see Smith, Mackenzie and Company;
- African Wharfage Company: see Smith, Mackenzie and Company;
- Alexandra Brickworks Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Anglo Siam Corporation: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Anglo Thai Corporation: Ms 27001-034;
- Arbuthnot, Ewart and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Argonauts Investments Limited: see Assam and African Investments Limited;
- Assam and African Holdings Limited: see Assam and African Investments Limited;
- Assam and African Investments Limited: Ms 27035-45;
- Assam Company Limited: Ms 8794-8803; 9924-9936; 11497-504; 23723-5 and 27046-103;
- Assam Estates Limited: Ms 27104-7;
- Australasian United Steam Navigation Company: 27108-45;
- Baghdad Light and Power Company: 27146-7;
- Bahrein Slipway Company: see Gray, Mackenzie and Company;
- Bally Paper Mills Company: see Borneo Company;
- Bangalore Woollen, Cotton and Silk Mills Company: see Binny and Company;
- Barnagore Jute Factory Company: see Borneo Company;
- Barry and Company: see Macneill and Barry;
- Barry, J. B. and Son: see Duncan Macneill and Company;
- Bhooteachang Tea Company: Ms 27148;
- Binny and Company: Ms 27149-73;
- Borneo Agencies Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Borneo Company: Ms 27174-474;
- Borneo Motors Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Brae and Chingoor Tea Estates Limited: Ms 27475-7;
- British India and Queensland Agency Company: Ms 27478-9;
- British India Associated Steamers Limited: Ms 27480-6;
- Bruseh Tin and Rubber Estates Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Bulkships Limited: Ms 27487;
- Cawnpore Electric Supply Corporation: Ms 27488;
- Cheerie Valley Tea Company: Ms 27489;
- Child, Macfarland and Company: Ms 27490-1;
- Dalhousie Jute Company: Ms 27492;
- Delmege, Allen and Company: Ms 27493-4;
- Delmege, Forsyth and Company: 27495-7;
- Dilmun Navigation Company: see Gray, Mackenzie and Company;
- Dodwell and Company: Ms 27498-526;
- Dodwell, Carlill and Company: see Dodwell and Company;
- Dodwell Motors Limited: see Dodwell and Company;
- Duncan Macneill and Company: Ms 27527-90;
- Eastern and Australian Steampship Company: see Australasian United Steam Navigation Company;
- Ewart, Latham and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Ewart, Lyon and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Ewart, Ryrie and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Ganges Transport and Trading Company: Ms 27591-2;
- Garden Reach Spinning and Manufacturing Company: Ms 27592A;
- Garden Reach Workshops Limited: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Gibb, Livingston and Company: Ms 27593-6;
- Gillanders, Ewart and Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Gilman (Holdings) Limited: Ms 27597;
- Gourepore Company: Ms 27598;
- Gourepore Electric Supply Company: Ms 27599;
- Gray, Dawes and Company: Ms 27600-87;
- Gray, Mackenzie and Company: Ms 27688-745;
- Gray, Paul and Company: see Gray, Mackenzie and Company;
- Greenwood Tea Company: Ms 27746-52;
- Haboko Tea Company: see Borneo Company;
- Hain (Edward) and Son: see St Mary Axe Securities Limited;
- India General Navigation and Railway Company: Ms 27753-65;
- India General Steam Navigation Company: see India General Navigation and Railway Company;
- India Rivers Steam Navigation Company: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Islay, Kerr and Company: Ms 27766-9;
- Java Agency Company: Ms 27770;
- Kalline Tea Company: Ms 27771-4;
- Kenya Landing and Shipping Company: see Smith, Mackenzie and Company;
- Kilburn and Company: see Macneill and Barry Limited;
- Kilburn, Brown and Company: Ms 27775-82;
- Koyah Tea Company: Ms 27783;
- Macdonald, Hamilton and Company: Ms 27784-7;
- Mackay and Company: Ms 27788-92;
- Mackay, Lynch and Company: see Mackay and Company;
- Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Company: Ms 27793-848;
- Mackinnon (W.) and Company: Ms 27849-50;
- Macneill and Barry Limited: Ms 27851-94;
- Macneill and Company: see Macneill and Barry Limited;
- Macneill and Kilburn Limited: see Macneill and Barry Limited;
- Macneill and Magor Limited: see Macneill and Barry Limited;
- Macneill, Barry and Company: see Duncan Macneill and Company;
- Majagram Tea Company: Ms 27895;
- Mediterranean Transport Company: Ms 27896-902;
- Mesopotamia Persia Corporation: see Gray, Mackenzie and Company;
- Metro-Dodwell Motors Limited: see Dodwell and Company;
- New Rivers Company: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Ngambo Limited: see Assam and African Investments Limited;
- Northern Dooars Tea Company: Ms 27903-8;
- Nuddea Mills Company: Ms 27909;
- Pahang Consolidated Company: see Borneo Company;
- Pakistan River Steamers Limited: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Pakistan Rivers Steam Navigation Company: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Rejang Agencies Limited: see Borneo Company;
- River Steamers Company: see Rivers Steam Navigation Company;
- Rivers Steam Navigation Company: Ms 27910-28101;
- St Mary Axe Securities Limited: Ms 28102-5;
- Salonah Tea Company: Ms 28106-11;
- Sarawak Rubber Estates Limited: see Borneo Company;
- Sarawak Steamship Company: see Borneo Company;
- Scottish Assam Tea Company: Ms 28112-16;
- Siam Forest Company: see Anglo Thai Corporation;
- Silonibari Tea Company: Ms 28117;
- Singapore Plywood Company: see Borneo Company;
- Smith, Mackenzie and Company: Ms 28118-53;
- Tanganyika Landing and Shipping Company: see Smith, Mackenzie and Company;
- Tarrapore Tea Company: Ms 28154-5;
- Thanai Tea Company: Ms 28156-62;
- Upper Assam Tea Company: Ms 28162A;
- Western Cachar Company: Ms 28169-73.
Also published history 'Pioneering Spirit: The story behind Inchcape's remarkable journey', 2010.
Records of Inchcape and Company Limited (1939-2010), including subject files belonging to Kenneth James William Mackay (third Earl of Inchcape) and other directors and seniors. Files concern the formation of the holding company in 1958 and also individual companies within the group.
Sem títuloRecords of Child, Macfarland and Company, export agents, comprising private ledger and sales ledger.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloWilliam MacKinnon and Company records comprise: partnership deeds, 1919-25 (Ms 27849); and copy minute of an agreement, 1885 (Ms 27850).
Sem títuloThe records of PW Flower and Sons, merchants, concern the company's trading interests and property investments, and the affairs and investments of the Flower family (see CLC/B/173/MS19469 for a Flower family tree) and of other families with shared or related interests; they include the papers of various trustees by whom some family and business activities were administered.
The records include:
- Mss 19338-55: business records: general, or relating to more than one country;
- Mss 19356-78: business records: Australia, including some Salting family papers (see also Mss 19470-89);
- Mss 19379-93: business records: India, including some Pearse family papers;
- Mss 19394-99: estate records: general or relating to more than one estate;
- Mss 19400-9: estate records: individual estates or properties (except Park Town);
- Mss 19410-38: estate records: Park Town, except maps and plans which are catalogued in the Print and Maps Section;
- Mss 19439-46: family records: executors of P.W. Flower, including references to business and estate matters;
- Mss 19447-69: family records: general, including references to business and estate matters;
- Mss 19470-89: Papers relating to the Salting family of Australia (with which the Flower family had business connections; see also Mss 19356-78) and in particular to George Salting (d 1909) art collector and benefactor to public art galleries.
Records of Ralli Brothers Limited, merchants, comprising printed annual reports 1953-60; financial records 1814-1857; powers of attorney 1839 and 1847; correspondence 1868-1872; business papers 1836-1866 and 1908, and report on organisation 1939; letting agreement 1843 and historical notes 1902-1952.
Sem títuloMainly records of predecessor companies of Standard Chartered Bank, including African Banking Corporation; Bank of British West Africa; Bank of Nigeria; Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; Eastern Bank Limited; E D Sassoon Banking Company Limited and related companies, London and South African Bank; P & O Banking Corporation Limited; Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited (together with Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited)
The papers include foundation papers; minutes and agendas (except signed Board and Committee minutes which are retained by the bank); annual reports and accounts; financial and taxation records; papers relating to branches and agencies; agreements; papers relating to shareholders and investments; correspondence (including a large series of letterbooks for Standard Bank of South Africa); statistics; photographs; publicity material; administrative records and original banknotes and cheques.
Sem títuloPapers of Wallace Brothers and Company Limited, East India Merchants, bankers and London agents, later known as Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited. Most of the records emanate from the core business of the Wallace Brothers partnership and its successors; but some emanate from the business of associated or subsidiary companies which were based in London. The latter include the records of Wyer and Hawke, London agents of Bombay Company Limited, who operated from the London office of Wallace Brothers between 1912 and 1968.
The archive does not hold the papers of Wallace Brothers' associated or subsidiary companies based overseas. No lists of the papers of these companies are held, and their whereabouts and accessibility are unknown. However the archives transferred to Guildhall from Wallace Brothers' London office include a considerable amount of information about the activities of many of these companies, including numerous copy and original documents sent to London by the companies concerned.
Besides papers created or received in the course of business, the Wallace Brothers archives include some memoirs of partners, directors or members of staff, and notes of research into the history of Wallace Brothers and its associates and subsidiaries.
The business papers date from 1862 to 1989, and relate to all aspects of Wallace Brothers' operations, although few banking records are held, and only formal business records survive from the period ca. 1966-1989.
Access is subject to a 45-year closure period (70 years in the case of personnel records). Annual reports and other published documents are not subject to closure.
The associated and subsidiary companies whose activities are known to be reflected in the Wallace Brothers archives are (provisionally) listed below, in the order in which the records will be arranged in the catalogue:
- Arrancan Company Limited, Burma rice merchants;
- Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited;
- subsidiaries and associaties of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited: Amalgamated Saw Mills Limited, Anamallais Ropeway Company Limited, Bombay Burmah Plantations Limited, East India Rubber Corporation Limited;
- subsidiaries and associates of East India Rubber Corporation Limited (Bombay-Java Trading Company, Indo-Java Rubber Planting and Trading Company Limited), Joint Timber Company Limited, Thailand, North Borneo Timbers Limited;
- subsidiaries and associates of North Borneo Timbers Limited (Wallace Bay Limited), Rangoon Mining Company, Sumatra Petroleum Company, Thai Tapioca Limited;
- Bombay Company Limited;
- subsidiaries and associates of Bombay Company Limited: BCL Limited, BMD Agency Limited, Dymes and Company, cotton mill owners and oilseed processors, Madras, Karachi Company Limited (formerly the Karachi branch of Bombay Company Limited; established as a separate company in 1952), Lakhshmi Cotton Manufacturing Company, Sholapur, India, Wyer and Hawke, London agents of Bombay Company Limited;
- Chrestian and Company, mica producers, India;
- DP Investments Limited;
- subsidiaries and associates of DP Investments Limited: Development Participations Limited;
- Glazebrook, Steel and Company Limited, textile manufacturers, Manchester;
- Hermes Securities Limited;
- subsidiaries and associates of Hermes Securities Limited: Hermes Credit Corporation Limited;
- Kerosene Oil Company Limited;
- Leslie and Anderson Limited;
- Malaysian Company Limited;
- Tannadine Company Limited, Sumatra;
- Wallace and Adam Limited, agricultural equipment importers, Kenya;
- subsidiaries and associates of Wallace and Adam Limited: Kiu Estate Limited, Ol Pejeta Ranching Company Limited, Pyrita Limited;
- Wallace and Company, Bombay;
- Wallace Brothers Developments Limited;
- Wallace Brothers Finance Limited;
- Wallace Brothers Nominees Limited;
- Wallace Evans and Company Limited (known as Wallace Brothers Commodities Limited from 1967).
Records of Thorne and Company Limited, merchants, including letter books; financial records; partnership deeds; share certificates; insurance policies and papers relating to land leased by the company in Shanghai.
Sem títuloBusiness papers of merchant Abraham Jalfon, including various accounts, invoices and receipts, accounts of packing charges on bales and cases, and annotated catalogues of sales at East India House of spices and textiles.
Sem títuloPapers of merchants John Hubbard and Company, including correspondence, reports and financial accounts.
Sem títuloOutgoing letter book of Thomas March, merchant trading with Turkey. This is a photocopy made in 1968; the original letter-book was in the possession of Squire de Lisle in 1968. Contains copies of letters concerning general financial matters and his estates at Garendon, Leicestershire.
Sem títuloLegal and business papers of Thomas Vyse and Sons, merchants.
Sem títuloArchives of Alto Parana Development, comprising constitutional documents, minutes and financial material.
Sem títuloRecords of the Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce, which comprise annual reports, minutes and reports of conferences.
Sem títuloRecords of Gabriel, Wade and English Limited, timber importers and merchants, including annual reports, financial accounts, sales ledgers and daybook, records of timber imported, property deeds, and photographs of tree-felling, logging and timber constructions.
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