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.
Sin títuloRecords of the Ratcliff Gas Light and Coke Company, including Bill and Act (4 Geo. IV cap. xcviii) for lighting with gas the parishes of St. Botolph, Aldgate, St. Paul, Shadwell, and parts of St. George-in-the-East, St. John, Wapping, Mile End Old Town and Ratcliff, 1823; notices; particulars of sale of shares in the company; agreements and contracts; papers relating to legal actions and lawsuits; correspondence; and papers relating to Company premises in Stepney and Wapping.
Sin títuloRecords 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.
Sin títuloRecords of the Western Gas Light Company, 1821-1860, including deed of settlement, Acts of Parliament relating to the Company, licences, papers relating to property, legal case papers, minutes of Directors' meetings and minutes of Shareholders' meetings.
Sin títuloRecords 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.
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 títuloRecords of insurance brokers Fenning and Shepard, comprising annual abstracts of balances, which were drawn from company ledgers 'A' and 'B' (whereabouts now unknown).
Sin títuloRecords 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.
Sin títuloRecords relating to J Lyons and Company Limited, food manufacturers and caterers, comprising copy of publication "The Lyons lithographs" by Richard Russell, 2000.
Sin títuloRecords 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.
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 títuloRecords of the Accident Offices Association (Overseas), association for insurers of accidents abroad, comprising minute books of general meetings, Motor Committee meetings, Workmen's Compensation Insurance committee meetings, Emergency Power Committee meetings, and Standing Committee for the Republic of Ireland meetings.
Sin títuloMinute books and circulars of the Consequential Loss Committee, part of the Fire Offices' Committee. Please note that permission must be obtained from the Association of British Insurers for access to records less than 75 years old. Contact details may be obtained from staff.
Sin títuloMinute book of the Debris Clearance Pool Committee.
Sin títuloMinute book of the Home Office Vehicles Pool.
Sin títuloThe records of the South African Accident Council include copy minutes, meetings papers and circulars of several of the South African accident associations, which were sent back to the South African Accident Council in London. These include records of: the Cape Accident Offices Association; the Transvaal Accident Offices Association; the Workmen's Compensation Insurers' Association of South Africa; the Accident Insurance Council of South Africa; the Southern Rhodesian Workmen's Compensation Insurers' Association; and the Accident Offices Association of Southern Africa.
Sin títuloRecords of the London Fire Engine Establishment, including Committee minute books; out-letter book; annual accounts and registers of fires in London, which contain information relating to fires attended by the London Fire Engine Establishment, including date, time of discovery, place, name and profession of occupier, possible cause of fire, details of insurance, who raised the alarm, who put out the fire, which engines attended, and what was damaged.
Sin títuloRecords of the London Salvage Corps including deed of constitution, Committee minute books, annual reports, accounts, papers relating to suspicious fires, statistics, and circulars.
Sin títuloMinute book of the London South African Insurance Committee.
Sin títuloMinute book of the London West Africa Insurance Committee.
Sin títuloRecords of the London Wharf and Warehouse Committee, including minute books; surveyors' reports; and plans of wharfs, warehouses and docks.
Sin títuloRecords of the National Amalgamated Approved Society, including rules; committee reports; correspondence and press cuttings.
Sin títuloRecords 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.
Sin títuloRecords of the Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited, including minutes, ledgers, journals, letters, and insurance registers. Also records of subsidiary and predecessor companies, including:
Accident Insurance Company;
British and European Insurance Company;
British General Insurance Company;
Edinburgh Assurance Company;
Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation;
Fine Art and General Insurance Company;
General Accident and Guarantee Company;
Guardian Plate Glass Insurance Company;
Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Company;
Imperial Live Stock and General Insurance Company;
Indemnity Marine Insurance Company;
Liverpool Victoria Insurance Corporation;
London Amicable Assurance Society;
London and Scottish Assurance Corporation;
Mercantile Fire Insurance Company;
New India Assurance Company;
North British and Mercantile Insurance Company;
Northern Assurance Company;
Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation;
Ocean and General Guarantee Company;
Ocean Marine Insurance Company;
Palatine Insurance Company;
Planet Assurance Corporation;
Provident Clerks and General Guarantee and Accident Company;
Railway Passengers Assurance Company;
Scottish Metropolitan Life Assurance Company;
Union Assurance Society;
United Kingdom Life Assurance Company;
Westminster and Kensington Freeholds Limited;
World Auxiliary Insurance Corporation;
World Marine and General Insurance Company.
Board minute books of the London and Scottish Assurance Corporation. The volumes are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sin títuloRecords of the New India Assurance Company Limited, comprising a salvage book giving details of insurance claims on shipping.
Sin títuloRecords of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Limited, comprising Board minutes, Accident Department minutes, Guarantee Department minutes, and annual general meeting minutes.
Sin títuloRecords of the Ocean Marine Insurance Company Limited, comprising minutes and agendas only. These records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sin títuloRecords of the Railway Passengers Assurance Company, including Board minutes, deeds of settlement, Committee minutes and general meeting minutes.
They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sin títuloRecords of the World Auxiliary Insurance Corporation Limited, comprising minutes of general meetings, board meetings, and managerial committee meetings. They are stored off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.
Sin títuloRecords of the Equitable Life Assurance Society spanning 1803 to 1976; with records of associated societies the Equitable Reversionary Interest Society (spanning 1835 to 1976); the Reversionary Interest Society (spanning 1823 to 1982) and the University Life Assurance Society (spanning 1825 to 1957).
Sin títuloRecords of Royal Exchange Assurance, comprising fire policy registers 1753-1870 (Mss 7252-5); inventories of works of art relating to policies 1822-1913 (Ms 10461); court and committee minutes 1825-1964 (Mss 16235-243, 16245-6, 16250); financial records including life journals and ledgers 1842-1943 (Ms 16251-4); accounts of affiliated companies 1908-1944 (Ms 31634); reports 1838-1957 (Ms 16246A-249); stock ledgers 1838-1927 (Ms 16233) and some staff records 1906-19 and 1927 (Ms 16244).
Mss 16232 and Ms 16234 have been returned to the depositor.
Please note that 24 hours notice is required for access to Mss 16232-54 and 31634.
Sin títuloCaledonian Insurance Company records comprise minutes and agendas, as well as overseas report books. They are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.
Sin títuloLicenses and General Insurance Company Limited records comprise Board minute books and accounts. 24 hours notice is required for access to these records.
Sin títuloPilot Insurance Corporation Limited minutes of the board of directors.
Sin títuloState Assurance Company Limited records comprise share records 1891-1955 (Mss 16255, 16257-8), minutes 1891-1944 (Ms 16259) and miscellaneous papers 1917-29 (Ms 16256).
Sin títuloEssex and Suffolk Accident Indemnity Society records comprise board minutes and agendas 1907-9 (Mss 16193-4) and a register of applications for and allotment of shares 1907 (Ms 16192).
Sin títuloRecords of the Imperial Continental Gas Association, including:
- Deeds of settlement, Acts of Parliament (Mss 23319-326);
- Directors' minutes and other papers (Mss 23327-340);
- General (Shareholders) meetings minutes and annual reports and accounts (Mss 23341-345);
- Secretary's papers (Mss 23346-376);
- Accounts (Mss 23377-413);
- Gas and electricity contracts:
Belgium (Mss 23414-424),
France (Mss 23425-30),
Germany (Mss 23431-432),
Netherlands (Mss 23433-434),
Roumania (Ms 23435); - Staff records (Mss 23436-442, Mss 31767-8);
- Property records (gas works, offices etc):
Austria-Hungary (Mss 23443-445),
Belgium (Mss 23446-66),
Germany (Ms 23467),
Netherlands (Ms 23468),
London (Ms 23449-74); - Notes for company histories (Ms 23475-480);
- Annual reports and accounts of subsidiaries (Mss 23481-482).
Records of Legal and General (Unit Pensions) Limited, comprising minutes of annual general meetings and annual reports and accounts.
Sin títuloMutual Life Assurance Society records comprise constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, records of policies and claims, and other administrative records. Some series were maintained by National Mutual after the merger.
24 hours notice is required for access to this material.
Sin títuloWhittington Life Assurance Company records comprise constitutional documents, records of policies, prospectuses and other administrative material. 24 hours notice is required for access to this material.
Sin títuloThe records comprise memorandum and articles of association, minutes, instructions for agents and financial records.
Sin títuloChurch of England Life and Fire Insurance Trust and Annuity Institution records consist of deeds of settlement, minutes and some financial material.
Sin títuloEconomic Life Assurance Society records comprise constitutional documents, minutes and other financial and administrative material.
Sin títuloDirectors' minute book of the Farmers and Gardeners Hailstorm Insurance Company.
Sin títuloThe Law Fire Insurance Society records consist of constitutional documents, minutes, administrative material including items relating to staff and salaries, reinsurance treaties, annual reports and financial material. Ms 29198 comprises annotated copy minutes and meetings papers of the Accident Offices Association found amongst the Society's records.
Sin títuloRecords of the Law Union and Crown Insurance Company, comprising fire department instructions to agents.
Sin títuloLondon, Edinburgh and Dublin Life Assurance Company Directors' minute book.
Sin títuloThe Monarch Fire and Life Assurance Company records comprise: committee minutes 1835-57; copy deed of settlement, 1836; and deed of arrangement, 1857.
Sin títuloRecords of the Phoenix Assurance Company including single assurance policy, deeds and deed of covenant and premises plans.
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