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GB 0099 KCLMA Abraham · 1931-1979

Correspondence relating to leaving Burmah Oil Company and attempts to re-enlist in the Army and RAF, 1939-1940, and papers relating to promotions and appointments, 1940-1944. Papers relating to service in the Middle East and Sicily, 1942-1943, including 16 typescript reports, Staffs and Services Committee, Middle East, May-Jun 1942; typescript 'Report of Committee on Beach Organisation and Working', 13 Nov 1943; manuscript map entitled 'Sicily, ports, coast and main communications', scale 1: 500, 000 [1943]; typescript letter from Maj Gen Charles Harvey Miller, 15 Army Group, relating to operations in Sicily, 1943. Papers relating to service in India and Burma, 1943-1945, including typescript 'Summary of the economic developments in the Far East during the six months ending 30th June, 1944'; 41 captioned official photographs, Burma campaign, 1944, notably including the redeployment by air of 5 Indian Div from the Arakan to Imphal, Indian Army troops and units of 7 Indian Div, Arakan, 1944; typescript notes, 'Points on AFV (armoured fighting vehicles) situation in India' [1944]; typescript text of lecture by Abraham entitled 'Military economy' [1945]; printed volume entitled 'The India base', issued by the Commander-in-Chief's Secretariat, General Headquarters, India, Jan 1945. Papers relating to the oil industry, especially with regard to the Middle East and Burma, 1931-1961, including reports, printed articles, plans and tables of statistics and correspondence, also, typescript report entitled 'General impressions formed during a short visit to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, December 1934'. Edition of Regimental Standing Orders of the Upper Burma Battalion, Auxiliary Force, (India) by Abraham (Mandalay Press, Mandalay, Burma, 1935). Typescript book manuscript entitled 'Time off for war. Recollections of a wartime Staff Officer' [1977], with copy of typescript letter from AF Rt Hon Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to the memoir, Dec 1977. Papers and correspondence relating to the Burma Star Association, 1964-1979, including letters from Mountbatten, 1968-1979, and from FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 1964-1965, also typescript account entitled 'A short history of the Burma Star Association' [1978].

Abraham , Sir , William Ernest Victor , 1897-1980 , Knight , Major General
ANGLO-MAIKOP GROUP
GB 0074 CLC/B/009 · Collection · 1910-1949

Papers 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.

Anglo-Maikop Group , oil mining company
GB 0101 TU.AQ · 1951-1970

Conference materials, labour agreements and disputes and general pamphlets issued by the Antigua Trades and Labour Union and the Antigua United Port and General Workers Union.

Institute of Commonwealth Studies
GB 0074 CLC/B/178-02 · Collection · 1912-1958

The records of Arbanash (Roumania) Oil Company comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1912 and 1929; minutes of board and general meetings, 1928-1955; annual balance sheets and accounts, 1939-1948, final accounts for 1948 and correspondence regarding winding up, 1950; cash book and private ledger, 1939-1958.

Arbanash (Roumania) Oil Co
ARTHUR BROWN AND COMPANY
GB 0074 CLC/B/014 · Collection · 1867-1947

Records of Arthur Brown and Company, comprising ledgers and financial material, wage books and sketch books of staff caricatures.

Arthur Brown and Co x ABCO Petroleum Ltd
Azoff and Don Gas Company
GB 0096 MS 857 · 1868

Agreement, dated 23 Oct 1868, between Albert Rumball, Thomas Rumball, Joseph Rivolta, John Septimo Rivolta and Vincent Wanostrocth to share the expenses of a journey to be made to St Petersburg by Albert Rumball, and the profits should licences be obtained to form the 'Azoff [Azov] and Don Gas Company'. Signatures of parties and witnesses.

Unknown
GB 0074 CLC/B/123-08 · Collection · 1930-1959

Records of the Baghdad Light and Power Company Limited, comprising articles of association and minute book.

Baghdad Light and Power Co Ltd
BRITISH TANKER COMPANY
GB 0074 CLC/B/227-041 · Collection · 1950-1951

Journal of A G R Sutherland, apprentice on the Merchant Vessel "British Renown".

Sutherland , A G R , fl 1950 , merchant sailor
GB 0097 BURN · [1926-1981]

Papers of Duncan Lyell Burn, [1926-1981], relating to his economic, business and journalistic interests, including material relating to his post as industrial correspondent of The Times, [1940-1962], such as notes and interviews by Burn and others on subjects including post-war reconstruction, the German economy and rearmament, the Marshall Plan, and steel nationalisation; material collated by Burn on the UK iron and steel industries, [1926-1974], including documents, pamphlets, press cuttings, notes, correspondence and memoranda relating to steel and iron production, distribution and pricing, notably papers relating to steel supplies during World War Two; papers relating to foreign visits by Burn, 1946-1971, to the Federal Republic of Germany, Holland, Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Sweden, Italy and India; detailed notes on interviews by Burn with prominent industrial and political figures, [1963-1969], mainly relating to the heavy electrical industry, nuclear power, the steel industry, and industrial organisation; correspondence and papers relating to the writing and publication of The economic history of steelmaking, 1867-1939 (University Press, Cambridge, 1940), [1930-1939]; material concerning the work of the Economic Development Office, 1962-1965, notably comprising correspondence relating to the setting up of the EDO and its sponsors, notes on discussions and visits with electrical manufacturers, correspondence with the Gas Council, the International Electrical Association, the Board of Trade, the Electrical Council and the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and minutes and reports of the EDO; papers of the Select Committee on Energy, [1978-1981], including investigations into the generation of electricity by nuclear power; material relating to nuclear power, especially in the USA, [1965-1981], namely correspondence, papers and notes; general correspondence of Burn, [1940-1974].

Burn , Duncan Lyell , 1902-1988 , journalist and economist
GB 0402 GCT · 1935-1985

Papers of Gertrude Caton-Thompson, 1935-1985, comprise artwork including preliminary drawings of maps, an offprint of an article 'Lake Moeris, re-investigations and some comments' by G Caton Thompson, E W Gardner and S A Huzayyin from Bulletin de l'Institut d'Egypte, T. XIX, 1936-1937 and photocopy of article 'Recent geological work in the Faiyun...' by O H Little from Bulletin de l'Institut d'Egypte, T. XVIII 1935-1936; aerial photo taken autumn 1938 by US pilot prospecting for oil, showing drainage pattern on edge of high plateau between Mukalla and Wadi Hadhramaut; Watercolour by Edith Hughes of the Fayum depression and preliminary drawing of map/sections of Wadi 'Amd at Hureidha, prepared for plate LXXII in the book Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidha published in 1944.

Thompson , Gertrude Caton- , 1888-1985 , anthropologist and egyptologist x Caton-Thompson , Gertrude
GB 0074 CLC/B/123-16 · Collection · 1929-1935

Records of Cawnpore Electric Supply Corporation, comprising general ledger.

Cawnpore Electric Supply Corporation
GB 0074 B/GLCC · Collection · 1812-1949

Records of the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company, 1812-1949, including Director's meeting minutes; Proprietors' Meeting minutes; Committee of Accounts, Finance and Audit minutes; Committee of Works minutes; Committee of Works and Products minutes; Committee of Chemistry and Machinery minutes; Committee of Light and Experiments minutes; Committee on Machinery and Works minutes; Committee on the Provision for Wear and Tear minutes; financial accounts; map of London Gas Companies' Districts; evidence presented to various Committees including Select Committees; proceedings in Parliament relating to the gas companies; and Gas Light and Coke Company's Acts, Charter and Bye-Laws.

Gas Light and Coke Company , 1812-1949 x Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company
GB 0102 CCSA · Created 1966-1993

Records, 1966-1993, of Christian Concern for Southern Africa (CCSA), comprising papers on the constitution of the CCSA; its Executive Committee and Annual General Meeting papers; finance papers and examples of many of CCSA's publications and reports. Also included are files of correspondence between CCSA and churches and religious organisations, affiliated support groups and British companies in South Africa. Papers also include those of the Oil Working Group, which contain material on the Royal Dutch/Shell Group; the mass lobby of Parliament (17 June 1986) for 'Sanctions against Apartheid' organised by CCSA; and the Ethical Investment Research Service, founded as an independent offshoot of CCSA.

Christian Concern for Southern Africa
GB 0097 CITRINE · Collection · 1924-1954

Citrine's diaries and diary notes, and original shorthand diaries; reference notebooks; correspondence and papers; general files and correspondence relating to the Trades Union Congress; papers relating to the National Coal Board and the Industrial Relations Bill, 1970; material relating to Citrine's honours and eminent contemporaries; press cuttings and printed material; and photographs.

Citrine , Walter Mclennan , 1887-1983 , 1st Baron Citrine , trade unionist
GB 0074 B/NTG-1 · Collection · 1705-1881

Records of the City of London Gas Light and Coke Company, 1705-1881, comprising deeds of title and co-partnerships and letters, relating to premises in Water Lane, Pigs Quay Wharf and other premises between Tudor Street and Water Street; and deeds relating to premises between Whitefriars Dock, Victoria Embankment and Tudor Street, near to Dorset Street.

City of London Gas Light and Coke Company
GB 0074 CLC/B/054 · Collection · 1849-1975

Records of the Colombo Gas and Water Company Limited, comprising constitutional documents, minutes and correspondence, share records, accounts and title deeds. It should be noted that CLC/B/054/MS14890 requires proof of identity to see.

Colombo Gas and Water Co Ltd , 1872-1982
COMMERCIAL GAS COMPANY
GB 0074 B/NTG-11 · Collection · 1838-1948

Records of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company, including half yearly report and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Commercial Gas Company to the Proprietors; reports of proceedings of ordinary half yearly meetings; register of stockholders attending ordinary annual meetings of the Commercial Gas Company; original prospectus of the company; bye laws of the company; letters about Robert Jones and copies of articles by and about him; petition presented on behalf of stokers and gas workers; statement of average rates of wages paid during the year to various grades; photograph of the centenary dinner of the company, and two letters from the Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell, M.P., Ministry of Fuel and Power; deed of trust and settlement of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company; alphabetical list of shareholders recording their receipt of the first dividend; agreement with other companies as to sphere of influence of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company, and indemnity and map; minutes of evidence before committee of inquiry into the company's proposed bill; Act for incorporating the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company; Act to convert stock of the Commercial Gas Company and insurance policy on the company's works at Jonsons Fields, Stepney.

Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company , 1839-1949
GB 0074 B/CGC · Collection · 1844-1949

Records of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company, 1844-1949. The records include minutes of directors' meetings, correspondence, half-yearly reports of the company, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous papers. Also notice of meeting of shareholders of Crystal Palace District Gas Company.

Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company , 1839-1949
GB 0074 B/CPG · Collection · 1853-1949

Records of the Crystal Palace District Gas Company, later called the South Suburban Gas Company, 1853-1949. The records include deeds of settlement, proprietors' and directors' meeting minutes and committee meeting minutes and a volume relating to a Parliamentary Bill, 1903.

Crystal Palace District Gas Company , 1854-1904 x South Suburban Gas Company , 1904-1949
GB 0074 ACC/1153 · Collection · 1847-1959

Records of the Tottenham and District Gas Company, 1847-1959, including register of shareholders and stockholders; minutes of shareholders' meetings; minutes of directors' meetings; out-letter book of board of directors; reports of the chief engineer and general manager to the directors, containing details of coal stocks, gas consumption, laying of mains, etc.

Reports of the managing director to the directors, incorporating those of both the chief engineer and the gas sales manager; reports of the secretary to the directors; files of printed Acts and Orders and correspondence; financial and accounting records; staff records and estimate and bill of costs for the extension of showrooms and offices at 639 High Road, Tottenham.

Records of the Southgate and District Gas Company, 1858-1938, including volume of Acts of Parliament relating to the Gas Companies; registers of shareholders; list of proprietors; registers of debenture stock and of debenture stockholders; register of transfers of stocks and shares; minutes of shareholders' meetings; minutes of directors' meetings; financial and accounting records.

Tottenham and District Gas Company , 1928-1948 Tottenham and Edmonton Gaslight and Coke Company , 1847-1914 Tottenham District Light, Heat and Power Company , 1914-1928 Southgate and District Gas Company , 1858-1938
Ecuador: Political Pamphlets
GB 3032 J 320 PAM · 1972-

Pamphlets, reports, manifestos, programmes, seminar papers and conference reports, 1972 onwards issued by Central Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones Clasistas(CEDOC), Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones Sindicales Libres, Confederation of British Industry, Cotacachi (Ecuador), Frente de Defensa de Comerciantes Minoristas de Guayaquil (FREDECOMI), Fundación Ecuatoriana de Desarrollo Social, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas (Universidad de Guayaquil (ILEP)), Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales (ILDIS), Ministerio de Recursos Naturales y Energéticos (Ecuador), Movimiento Revolucionario de los Trabajadores(MRT), Unión Regional de Organizaciones Campesinas del Litoral (Ecuador), Universidad Central del Ecuador Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas.

Institute for the Study of the Americas
GB 0098 B/EGERTON · Created 1908-1958

Papers of Sir Alfred Egerton, 1908-1958, comprising research papers, notes and reports largely relating to explosives, manufacture of ammonia and hydrogen, [1916-1925], laboratory work at Oxford, 1919-1926, work for the Admiralty, 1940-[1950], papers relating to patents, 1928-1958; research notebooks, 1908-1937, including some correspondence and notably concerning vapour pressure of metals, amides of metals, residual gases in discharge tubes; lecture notes concerning combustion; papers on optical pyrometry, 1933-1938; correspondence and papers relating to research on the properties of steam, steam tables, international conferences on steam, 1930-1946.

Egerton , Sir , Alfred Charles Glyn , 1886-1959 , knight , chemist
GB 0074 B/EGLC · Collection · 1831-1949

Records of the Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company, 1831-1949, including minutes of Director's meetings; minutes of shareholder meetings; minutes of Committee of Works; minutes of Committee of Accounts and General Purposes; minutes of the Conference of representatives from the Equitable, London and Chartered Gas Light Companies; deed of settlement; site plan of gasworks; legal case papers and press cuttings.

Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company , 1831-1871
EQUITABLE GAS LIGHT COMPANY
GB 0074 B/NTG-2 · Collection · 1829-1870 (property records span 1766-1902).

Records of the Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company, including endorsement to be made on the deed of settlement, 1835; supplemental deed of settlement, 1838; certificate of formal registration of the company, 1844; reports of the Company's Directors; papers relating to legal proceedings and lawsuits; correspondence; agreements and contracts; papers relating to premises owned by the Company in Kensington, Westminster, Pimlico and Chelsea.

Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company , 1831-1871
Gas, Light And Coke Company
GB 0096 MS 398 · 1812

Manuscript copy of the Charter of incorporation granted to the Gas, Light and Coke Company by King George III, dated 30 April, [1812].

Gas, Light and Coke Company
GB 0074 B/NTG-12 · Collection · 1825-1948

General records relating to the supply of gas, 1825-1948, collected by the North Thames Gas Board and predecessor companies. Includes draft Parliamentary reports leading up to the Act for better regulating the supply of gas to the metropolis, 1860; minutes of weekly meetings of a Committee of Chairmen of the Metropolitan Gas Companies in connection with the Parliamentary Committee inquiring into the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860; Bill and relevant papers concerning the proposed amalgamation of all or some of the metropolitan gas companies; drafts, petitions and briefs concerning the London Corporation Gas Bill; report from the Board of Trade on the current Railway, Tramway, Gas and Water Bills, 1870; Gas and Water Facilities Bill, 1870; press cuttings; statistical information about gas companies, 1865.

Also papers relating to individual gas companies including Bill to establish a company for illuminating London and Westminster with oil gas (the London and Westminster Oil Gas Company), 1825; minutes of evidence before the House of Lords' select committee on the Phoenix Gas Bill, 1864; half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Phoenix Gas Light and Coke Co. to the Proprietors; Bills and Acts affecting the powers of the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company; Bill amending powers of the Surrey Consumers' Gas Light and Coke Association; annual reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Surrey Consumers' Gas Company to the Shareholders.

North Thames Gas Board , 1949-1973
GB 0098 KG · Created 1876-1996 (ongoing)

Records of the Department of Geology of Imperial College, 1876-1996, including histories and notes on the department, [1851]-1996; papers relating to courses, 1878-1949, comprising notes, 1896-1942, including laboratory work, 1878-1883; courses for teachers, 1895-1908; lectures and addresses by Professor Herbert Harold Read, 1942-1949; Rectors' correspondence, 1955-1981, concerning grants, headship, transfer of the department, courses; newletters, 1969-1995; research report, 1988; papers of Professors' and Heads of Sections' Meetings, 1969-1988; papers of historical interest accumulated by the department, 1876-1964, including Professorial correspondence, 1876-1916; departmental reports, 1907-1930; financial papers, 1906-1936; war work, 1914-1919; papers of Professor Percy George Hamnall Boswell, 1932-1960; Professor Charles Gilbert Cullis, 1923-1937; Professor Herbert Harold Read, 1944-1964 (KG);
papers relating to Geochemistry, concerning the opening of new laboratories, 1956; Wolfson Foundation grant, 1978 (KGC); items from the Murchison Museum, [1773-1825] (KGM); papers relating to Geophysics, including correspondence with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Royal Society concerning the foundation of a postgraduate school, 1929-1943; leaflet, 1956 (KGP3); papers relating to Oil Technology (KGO).

Royal School of Mines Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
GB 0074 CLC/B/123-29 · Collection · 1930

Records of the Gourepore Electric Supply Company, comprising memorandum and articles of association.

Gourepore Electric Supply Co
GB 0074 CLC/B/123-31 · Collection · 1872-1970

Records of Gray, MacKenzie and Company Limited, general merchants and agents in the Persian Gulf, including partnership agreements; articles of association; correspondence; legal papers; financial accounts; annual reports; papers relating to property; historical notes; papers relating to Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited, Bahrein Slipway Company Limited and Dilmun Navigation Company Limited.

Gray, MacKenzie and Co Ltd , general merchants and agents
GB 0074 B/NTG-3 · Collection · 1846-1870

Records of the Great Central Gas Consumers Company, 1846-1870, including certificate of formal registration of the company; reports of the Company's Directors; bills of costs in various legal transactions and suits; correspondence agreements; contracts for lighting various parishes; deeds and plans for various premises.

Great Central Gas Consumers Company
HAMPTON COURT GAS COMPANY
GB 0074 ACC/1375 · Collection · 1863-1949

Records of the Hampton Court Gas Company, consisting of twelve volumes of signed minutes of directors' meetings of proprietors, 1937-1949. The majority of the volumes contain certain cuttings about the company and the gas industry in general which have been extracted from local newspapers and pasted inside the front and back covers.

Hampton Court Gas Company x Hampton Court United Gas Company
GB 0074 B/IMP/GLC · Collection · 1821-1878

Records of the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company, 1821-1878, including Directors' meeting minutes and orders; Shareholders' meeting signed minutes; Committee for General Purposes signed minutes; Committee for Works signed minutes; Committee for Accounts signed minutes; appointments and emoluments of Officers; Committee for Works rough minutes; summary of half-yearly accounts of Metropolitan Gas Companies including The Imperial, Gas Light and Coke Company, Commercial, Independent, Ratcliff, London, Phoenix, South Metropolitan and Surrey Consumers and bound volume of Acts relating to the Company, Gas, Public Companies and so on.

Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company
INCHCAPE GROUP
GB 0074 CLC/B/123 · Collection · 1836-2010

Records 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.

Inchcape and Co Ltd
GB 0074 B/IND/GLCC · Collection · 1827-1875

Records of the Independent Gas Light and Coke Company, 1827-1875, comprising minutes of Directors and Shareholders meetings with some enclosures including letters, notices, circulars, and prospectuses.

Independent Gas Light and Coke Company , 1824-1876
GB 0099 KCLMA Joffé · Created, 1959-1993

Comprising copies of journals, maps, newspaper cuttings and supporting printed literature relating to politics, trade, international development and relations between nations in North Africa and the Middle East, 1959-1993; notably including personal papers and notes compiled by George Joffé for Menas (Middle East and North African Studies Press) Ltd, and in the course of his work as a journalist, principally correspondence with publishers, consultants and experts in the oil industry relating to legal action over disputed damages estimates, 1978-1986, papers on Project Profile Ltd, a consultancy company established in 1982; cuttings and typescript articles and lecture texts by Joffé mainly on Morocco and North Africa delivered to the African History seminar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1976-1977 (Ref: Joffé 1/1-3); research papers compiled for Menas, mainly correspondence with experts on the various arbitration and court proceedings between international oil companies and national governments with which Menas was involved, including on Iran, the Iranian oil industry, economy, borders and politics, 1966-1993, Libya and Malta and the 'Continental Shelf Case', 1983-1990, Saudi Arabia and Yemeni border issues, 1991, disputes concerning international water resources, 1982-1986, cost analysis, accounting standards and background articles on the Khemco and Phillips oil cases, 1985-1988, notes on Morocco including offprints, press cuttings, national economic statistics and statistics of neighbouring countries in North Africa, 1974-1988 (Ref: Joffé 2/1-8); typescript court reports, claimants' and respondents' submissions, evaluations, expert testimony and supporting evidence in a number of international disputes aired at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands, and International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration, concerning several major international oil companies or local subsidiaries including Phillips Petroleum, Amoco, Mobil Oil, Arco, Gatoil, Lapco and Khemco in their claims against Iran, 1983-1989, the Saudi Arabia-Yemen boundary dispute, 1991-1992, Mobil Oil Libya v Libya, 1982-1986, Libya-Malta Continental Shelf Case with extracts from numerous Maltese parliamentary papers and Mediterranean geological studies, 1966-1983 (Ref: Joffé 3/1-14); Menas publications, notably on Iran, Libya, Morocco, international boundaries and water resources, 1979-1991 (Ref: Joffé 4); on the politics, economies and international relations of numerous North African or Middle Eastern countries and regions including Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Europe, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and on various topics such as oil, Islam and the Salman Rushdie affair, 1980-1989 (Ref: Joffé 5/1-4); Economist Intelligence Unit publications, mainly Special Reports on countries, industries, trends and energy reviews, 1983-1993 (Ref: Joffé 6/1-3); copies of various journals and periodicals including International Affairs, 1980-1986, The Middle East Journal, 1980-1987, Third World Quarterly, 1981-1984, 1986-1987, Cedies informations, 1983-1987, Middle East Business Weekly, 1985-1990, Middle East Economic Survey, 1987-1989 (Ref: Joffé 7); statistical publications on various Middle East and African countries including Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Morocco, company reports, OPEC reports, 1959-1990 (Ref: Joffé 8/1-5); copies of maps, mainly topographical and geological, of Iran, [1950-1985] (Ref: Joffé 9); diverse bibliographies including on Afghanistan, uranium, Africa and the International Court of Justice, 1979-1980 (Ref:Joffé 10); copies of archival documents used in research undertaken by Menas and in court and arbitration proceedings, employed to establish historical precedents and resolve boundary disputes, on Malta, including copies of documents in the Archives of the Knights of St John, Public Record Office (PRO), London, and the State Archives in Venice, in Italian, French and English, [1728-1950], Israel-Jordan water resources mainly from the US National Archives' Eric Johnson manuscripts, Public Record Office (PRO) Colonial Office and Foreign Office documents on the same subject, 1876-1959], Saudi Arabia-Yemen territorial dispute copies of diplomatic records from the Public Record Office, India Office and Ottoman Archives, Istanbul, [1890-1930], copies of treaties mainly on the Mediterranean and Morocco, in French, [1761-1985], Libya disputes with Chad and Malta, French plans for Libya and the former Italian colonies, including PRO Foreign Office 371 and 146, and the Rennell papers, Nuffield College, Oxford, [1883-1991], Iraq-Kuwait territorial claims including PRO Foreign Office 371 documents and India Office papers, [1909-1956] (Ref: Joffé 11/1-6).

Joffé , (Emile) George (Howard) , b 1940 , academic and strategic analyst
GB 0074 LMA/4192 · Collection · 1928-1969

Records of the London Electric Supply Corporation Limited and successor London Electricity Board, comprising plans of Main Transmissions Networks in the London, Essex and Kent areas, 1937 - 1951; and photographs of Grove Road Sub-Station, 195-; Carnaby Sub-Station, 1952; Neckinger Sub-Station, 1958; Horseferry Road Central Bank, 1959; Barnes Substation, 1960; Beech Station 'B' Sub-Station, 1969; Cable Tunnel under Surrey Canal, 195-; and Horseferry Road and Grove Street, 1928.

London Electric Supply Corporation Ltd
GB 0074 B/LGLC · Collection · 1833-1883

Records of the London Gas Light and Coke Company, 1833-1883, comprising Directors' meetings signed minutes; Shareholders' meetings signed minutes; Committee of Works, Estimates, Contracts and Buildings signed minutes; Committee of Finance signed minutes; and Committees of Works, Finance and Inspection, and General Board signed minutes.

London Gas Light and Coke Company
LONDON GAS LIGHT COMPANY
GB 0074 B/NTG-6 · Collection · 1833-1883 (property records span 1740-1902)

Records of the London Gas Light Company, including half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Company to the Shareholders; contracts for lighting parts of Chelsea, Saint Pancras and the Tothill Fields districts; agreements with various road authorities concerning the laying down of gas mains in South London; and papers relating to premises in Lambeth and Battersea.

London Gas Light and Coke Company
GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 49 · 1939-1944

German armed forces maps, gazetteers, and geographic charts of the United Kingdom, 1939-1944. Includes detailed study produced by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force concerning the organisation of the RAF, the strengths and locations of British aircraft production facilities, the location of RAF flight schools, airfields and anti-aircraft facilities, the location and strengths of RN facilities in Britain and the North Sea, and British aircraft carrier strengths, 1939; German harbour atlas and gazetteer produced and distributed by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force, entitled Seehafensatlas Großbritannien, detailing in 1:50,000 maps and aerial photographs, naval harbours and ports in Britain, 1940; German Navy High Command map books of naval ports and harbours in the United Kingdom, their associated agricultural and heavy industries production rates, defence facilities, and geographical locations, 1940; map books issued by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force, entitled Luftgeographisches Einzelheft Großbritannien, detailing the location of British heavy industry, gas works, water works, aircraft and naval production facilities in Britain, including 1:21,120 maps, 1940; German Army High Command book, entitled Militärgeographie Angaben über Irland, and detailing in photographs the towns, cities and countryside of Ireland and Northern Ireland; German Army Command gazetteer of Ireland and Northern Ireland, entitled Militärgeographie Angaben über Irland, listing county sizes, numbers of inhabitants, population densities, industries, and harbour and port facilities in Ireland and Northern Ireland, 1940; German Army High Command gazetteers of Britain, listing alphabetically towns and cities, their longitude and latitude co-ordinates, their respective counties, numbers of inhabitants, industrial and agricultural production rates, and trains station facilities, 1941; map book distributed by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force, entitled Britische Flugrüstungsindustrie, detailing the location, size, and production rate of ship-building and aircraft production centres in Great Britain, 1941; map books distributed by the Commander in Chief of the German Air Force including detailed photographs, 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 maps, longitude and latitude co-ordinates, population density statistics, and points of reference notes for town and cities in Britain, 1943-1944

German Army General Staff; Commander in Chief German Air Force; German Navy High Command
GB 0103 OHREN · 1887-1891

Agreements re appointment of John Ohren of Lower Sydenham as general manager and engineer-in-chief to the Montevideo Gas Company Ltd, Uruguay, 1887, and deeds re change of name of Ohren family to Ovington, 1891.

Montevideo Gas Company Ltd
GB 0074 ACC/2216 · Collection · 1807

Records of the National Light and Heat Company, comprising mounted facsimile of programme for admission to meeting at 97 Pall Mall to establish the National Light and Heat Company, to exploit F A Winsor's hydrocarbonic lights. Facsimile undated, original item 1807.

Winsor , Frederick Albert , 1763-1830 , gas engineer
GB 0074 LMA/4223 · Collection · 1893-1989

Records donated by the London Gas Museum, comprising some 400 Ordnance Survey sheets of various scales and editions, 1893-1989. Many have been amended to show property owned or leased by the Gas Light and Coke Company, the Brentford Gas Company or the North Thames Gas Board. These properties tend to be gas works or showrooms. The plans cover only parts of the area north of the River Thames. There are no sheets for areas south of the Thames. A later deposit consisted of staff magazines and photographs for both the North Thames Gas Board and the South Eastern Gas Board.

Gas Light and Coke Company , 1812-1949 x Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company Brentford Gas Light Company , 1821-1926 North Thames Gas Board , 1949-1973 South Thames Gas Board
GB 0074 ACC/0638 · Collection · 1708-1947

Papers of the North Thames Gas Board, comprising records of predecessor companies, including the Brentford Gas Light Company, the Gas Light and Coke Company, Harrow and District Gas Company, the Harrow and Stanmore Gas Company, North Middlesex Gas Company, Pinner Gas Company, Uxbridge Old Gas Company, the Hornsey Gas Company Limited, and Staines and Egham District Gas and Coke Company Limited, 1708-1947. Records include assignments of interest, leases, releases, fines, copies of wills, mortgages, papers relating to bankruptcy, conveyances, depositions, agreements, deeds, marriage settlements, testimony, bonds, quit rents, correspondence, abstracts of title, Chancery proceedings, sale particulars, licences, engineers reports, Parliamentary Bills and financial accounts for properties, businesses and persons in Acton, Brentford, Ealing, Chiswick, Greenford, Harrow, Hendon, Heston, Hornsey, Isleworth, Northwood, Pinner, Southall, Tottenham, Twickenham and Uxbridge. Also memorandum and articles of association for the Hornsey Gas Company, description of the Hornsey Gas Works, and regulations of the Staines and Egham District Gas and Coke Company Limited.

Papers of the Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company, 1834-1924, including prospectus; certificates of registration; deed of settlement; list of shareholders; copy of Uxbridge Gas Act; correspondence; petition; handbills and posters; circular letters; notices; bonds; contracts; plan of the houses, lands and buildings situated within a radius of 330 yards from the works of the Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company, with book of reference listing owners, lessees and occupiers; schedule of repairs; valuation of machinery and apparatus; list of meters; financial accounts; engineers reports; directors' reports; annual reports; agreement for transfer of Maidenhead Gas Company; report of the directors of Great Marlow Gas Company Limited, with account of intended amalgamation with the Uxbridge, Wycombe and District Gas Company; minute books of the Committee of Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers' Company.

Papers of the North Middlesex Gas Company, 1869-1932, including printed account books and reports of the Company.

Papers of the Gas Light and Coke Company, 1896-1929, including agreement between the Warden and College of All Souls, Oxford and the Gas Light and Coke Company to lay gas main through College lands in Willesden and leases of 38 Oxford Road, Kilburn to the Gas Light and Coke Company.

North Thames Gas Board , 1949-1973 Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company , 1854-1949 North Middlesex Gas Company , 1862-1949 Gas Light and Coke Company , 1812-1949
NORTH WOOLWICH UNDERTAKING
GB 0074 B/NTG-7 · Collection · 1774-1801

Records of the North Woolwich Undertaking, comprising papers relating to a messuage called "the Gallions" and 115 acres in North Woolwich, and 10 acres in the parish of Barking, 1774-1801.

North Woolwich Undertaking , gas supply company
ORION S.A.R. DE PETROL
GB 0074 CLC/B/178-03 · Collection · [1918?]

Records of Orion SAR de Petrol, petroleum company, comprising report on war damage sustained in 1916 and the resulting compensation claim.

Orion S.A.R. de Petrol , petroleum company
GB 0074 B/PHG · Collection · 1824-1880

Records of the Phoenix Gas Light and Coke Company, 1824-1880, including Proprietors' meeting minutes; Directors' meetings signed minutes; minutes of the Committee of Directors on extravagant burning; and minutes of the Accounts Committee of Directors.

Phoenix Gas Light and Coke Company
GB 0074 CLC/B/178 · Collection · [1900]-1958

Records 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.

Various.
PHOENIX OIL PRODUCTS LIMITED
GB 0074 CLC/B/178-04 · Collection · 1924-1952

The records of Phoenix Oil Products Limited comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1924, 1926 and 1947; minutes of board meetings, 1926-50 and general meetings, 1927-50; financial statements, 1927-47; directors' annual reports and accounts, 1927-46; ledgers, sales ledgers, journals and cash book, 1926-51; papers regarding the nationalisation of Roumanian industry, 1950; papers regarding liquidation, 1950-2; annual balance sheets and accounts of Runo-Everth Treibstoff und Oel A. G., 1939-49; reports on visits to offices of Runo-Everth Treibstoff und Oel A.G., 1947.

Phoenix Oil Products Ltd
GB 0097 PIERCY · Collection · 1915-1966

Notes, correspondence and other papers relating to Piercy's time at the Ministry of Munitions; at the British Ministry of Food in the USA; as General Trading Manager of Harrisons and Crosfield; as Joint Managing Director of Pharaoh Gane and Co Ltd; as a partner in the stock broking firms of Capel, Cure and Terry, and Fenn and Crosthwaite; as leader of the British Petroleum Mission; at the Ministry of Production; as personal assistant to Clement Attlee; as Chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation; and his official appointments. Personal letters and biographical material, including the records of the Evelyn Trust and Chichester Estate Trust; essays, notes and other material relating to Piercy's education and lecturing; and material relating to Piercy's involvement with educational institutions, the Wellcome Trust, and his various other interests.

Piercy , William Stuckey , 1886-1966 , 1st Baron Piercy , financier
LCC/PC/WM · Collection · 1888-1972
Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

Records of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to weights and measures and gas testing, 1888-1972, including records of Daily Gas Testing; Gas Testing Weekly Returns; reports and conferences relating to gas supply; quarterly reports of the Chief gas examiner; quarterly reports by the LCC chemist and reports regarding the Weights and Measures Acts.

Samples of records including journal of weights, measures, weighing and measuring instruments submitted for verification and fees received by the inspector of weights and measures; journal of fines; certificates of measures verified; certificates of weighing on a public weighbridge; certificates for weighing mechanically propelled vehicles; receipts of glassware for testing; glass-testing book; public notice concerning Publicans' Glass Measures; public notice concerning Sale of Bread; standards and testing of gasholders testing sand-blast machines; papers relating to the re-verification of local standards, scale-beams, and so on with the Board of Trade.

LCC , London County Council x London County Council