Papers relating to Rees Jeffreys' involvement in the Roads Improvement Association and the Road Board; road legislation, finance, design and development; Road Congresses; roads overseas; the relationship between road and rail transport; roads during the two world wars and their reconstruction in the post-war period; motor legislation and motor organisations; motorways; town planning; transport congresses and transport policy; transport infrastructure in the Commonwealth; bridges; buses and tramways; Rees Jeffreys' book, 'The King's Highway'; journals concerned with transport; and personal material, including private correspondence, biographical writings and overseas tour diaries.

Shares records of the Army, Navy and General Assurance Association Limited comprising registers of members, share ledgers, registers of transfers, share transactions, share certificates, dividends record, register of directors' shareholdings, annual returns of shareholdings.

Corporate records of the Allied Traders Insurance Company including memorandum and articles of association, board of directors' meeting minutes, annual general meeting shorthand notes and report, annual reports and accounts, amalgamation papers and agreement, liquidators' papers and report.

Shares records of the Allied Traders Insurance Company, comprising register of members.

Business records of the Allied Traders Insurance Company comprising fire policy proposal.

Business records of British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited comprising policies and branch standing orders.

Financial records of United Dominions Insurance Company Limited comprising yearly figures and petty cash book.

Corporate records of Cattle Traders' Insurance Company Limited comprising certificate of incorporation, shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings minutes, annual reports and accounts, audited accounts, registers of directors and secretaries, share ledger, register of transfers, and company seal book.

Records of Commonwealth Insurance Company Limited comprising papers relating to amalgamation.

Premises records of Eagle Insurance Company including notes and advert relating to 79 Pall Mall; subscription book for prints of portraits; draft notes relating to properties in London and sale particulars for property in Middlesex.

Corporate records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including Board of Directors' agendas and minute books; memoranda, articles of association, certificates of incorporation and registration, insurance companies regulations; minutes of various committees; index of parties to correspondence and agreements; minute book of shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings; annual reports and accounts; papers of British Insurance Association, Chartered Insurance Association, Insurance Institute of London, Insurance Institute of Ilford and SW Essex; printed histories of Halifax and Temperance Permanent Building Societies; registers of directors; directors' dinners: menu, photographs, programme, table assignments; correspondence files of main board and directors; photographs of and papers relating to Sir Edward Mountain; circular letter regarding setting up of local boards; directories of and files relating to local directors; minutes of local boards and related reports and photographs; minutes, reports and correspondence of regional boards; stationery samples and letterheads; and papers relating to grants of arms to Eagle Star.

Shares records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including registers of members and share ledgers, registers of transfers, notices and correspondence relating to North Western Insurance, allotment book, registers of directors' shareholdings, correspondence relating to reference shares issue, papers relating to share capitalization scheme, executive share incentive scheme memoranda and register.

Staff records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including staff standing orders; photographs of staff and related papers and correspondence; instructions, guides and notes for staff; circulars; reminiscences of staff pensioners; papers relating to staff salaries and pension schemes; Eagle Pension Funds Limited: ledgers; papers, correspondence and photographs relating to staff social activities; and magazines.

Records of Eagle Star Insurance Company relating to acquisitions, including purchase of British Crown: letters and accounts; Eagle Insurance Company: liquidation papers; Livestock and General Underwriters Limited: certificate of incorporation, balance sheet; Sceptre Life Association Limited: purchase papers; Shield Insurance Company Limited: sample policy forms; Star Life Assurance Society Limited: purchase papers.

Business records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited including policy registers, individual policies and related papers, prospectuses and related papers, rate book and tables, fund accounts, letter book and reports, fire policy, report on the desirability of undertaking employers' liability business, calendars and diary, agents' commission rates, overseas reports, Life Offices Association annual reports, papers relating to position of life offices and income tax, papers relating to London United Tramways Limited, general manager's cutting and documents for information.

Corporate records of the London Mutual Life and Guarantee Society comprising copy of chairman's statement at special board meeting and announcement to policyholders of agreement with Eagle.

Shares records of Liverpool Reversionary Company Limited including share ledgers and registers of members and share certificates.

Business records of Liverpool Reversionary Company Limited including valuations of life interests and reversions; correspondence relating to assignments and live interests, and debenture bonds held by life interests.

Shares records of Navigators and General Insurance Company Limited including register of members and share ledgers; register of transfers; share transactions; share certificates book; register of directors' shareholdings; notice and letter relating to EGM.

Shares records of the National Mercantile Life Assurance Society including shareholders' deed of release, and power of attorney to execute.

Premises records of the National Mercantile Life Assurance Society including article, prints and advertisement.

Corporate records of Palladium Life Assurance Society including deed of settlement, and correspondence relating to merger between Eagle and Palladium.

Corporate records of Solicitors and General Assurance Society including deeds of settlement, and memorial relating to policyholders' petition for meeting to convert to mutual status.

Business records of Solicitors and General Assurance Society comprising policy papers, including prospectus.

Corporate records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including deeds of settlement; acts of parliament; Board of directors: minutes and agendas, resolutions and presented papers; annual general meeting minutes; annual reports and quinquennial valuations; lists of directors, trustees and secretary; death and burial certificates; notes on memorials related to the Chubb family; statutory declaration and related papers; deed and conveyance of assets; key register for strongroom and seal keys; and papers relating to amalgamation.

Records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited relating to acquisitions and mergers including papers and press cuttings relating to proposed mergers; and prospectuses and proposals of other companies.

Shares records of Star Assurance Society Limited including register of directors and members, share certificate counterfoils, and register of directors' shareholdings.

Corporate records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including memorandum and articles of association; board of directors' minute and agenda books; historical note regarding company; annual reports and statements of account; extraordinary general meeting correspondence and notices; registers of directors, members and secretaries; candidature of Emile Littler; papers relating to anniversary lunch arrangements; seal books; and papers relating to amalgamation.

Business records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including prospectus, specimen policies, policies issued, register of contingency insurances through theatrical agencies, and advertising: printed material.

Shares records of Trent Insurance Company Limited including register of members and directors, with share ledger; share transactions; share certificate counterfoils; dividend mandates to Eagle Star; and register of directors' shareholdings.

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.

Institute of London Underwriters records as follows: General Meetings minutes (Ms 31840); annual reports (Ms 31841); Committee minutes and agendas (Mss 31842-4); minutes of various lesser committes and sub-committees (Mss 31845-62); registers of members (Ms 31863); ledgers and cash books (Mss 31864-7); circulars (Mss 31868-9); clauses books (Ms 31870); out-letter books (Mss 31871-80); and miscellaneous papers (Mss 31881-97). The 1884 Memorandum and Articles of Association can be found in vol. 1 of the registers of members (Ms 31863).

A cut-off date of 1960 was applied, and volumes or series (other than Circulars) continuing after this date may only be consulted by readers who have written permission from the donor: ask a member of staff for more information.

Records of Legal and General (Unit Assurance) Limited, comprising memorandum and articles of association, annual reports and accounts.

Whittington 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.

Records of the Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association, including minutes, financial material, records of policies and claims, and records of the benevolent fund. The records include some records of the Planet (later Citizen) Assurance Corporation Limited, which was absorbed by the Association in 1874.

The records comprise memorandum and articles of association, minutes, instructions for agents and financial records.

Records of the County Fire Office Limited, including instructions to agents; deed of constitution; deeds of settlement; papers relating to the takeover by Alliance Assurance Company; minutes; annual reports and accounts; financial records; share registers; specimen policies; correspondence; policy registers; registers of fires in London; staff registers; newsletters; papers relating to office premises; notes on the history of the Company; and photographs.

The archives contain many references to the Provident Life Office, the sister company of the County Fire Office, with which it shared many of its premises and staff.

Records of the Law Life Assurance Society comprise: policy registers 1823-1912; minutes 1823-1911; accounts 1823-91; papers relating to the transfer of business to Phoenix Assurance 1909-10; and papers concerning directors of the company 1910-33.

The Law Union and Rock Insurance Company Limited records comprise: deed of settlement, prospectus, agreements, conveyances and related papers 1854-1970; AGM minutes and annual reports and accounts 1855-1970; board minutes and agendas 1858-1973; committee minutes and reports 1857-1935; seal registers 1896-1964; correspondence and reports 1901-28; policy registers 1854-67; instructions to agents 1898-1903; scrapbooks ca.1888-1961; and records concerning staff 1896-1957.

Permission to publish any material must be obtained from the depositor.

The London and Lancashire Insurance Company Limited records comprise constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, seal books, policy registers and other administrative papers.

They may be freely consulted with the exception of a few items less than 30 years old which may only be seen with the permission of the depositor, from whom permission must also be sought to publish any material.

The Provident Life Office collection comprises constitutional records, minutes, annual reports and other administrative items, as well as the life policy registers for 1806-1906.

The Reading and District Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Company records comprise a policy register 1896-1918; and a ledger 1896-1926.

General administrative records of Sun Insurance Office Limited, including standing order books; resolutions; papers regarding company policy, management and office organisation; papers relating to general insurance matters and other insurance companies; legal memoranda; newspaper cuttings; policy documents; prospectuses; circulars; blank policy forms; booklets; statistics; papers relating to Sun Life Assurance Society; papers relating to the London Fire Engine Establishment and the London Salvage Corps; and a history by FB Relton.

The administrative records cover the domestic division of the Sun into 'Town' and 'Country' departments, and also the records of the foreign division from its inception in 1836.

This section includes notebooks and scrapbooks compiled by Francis Boyer Relton, who was Office Secretary 1873-82.

THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.

Papers of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to policies; including policy registers; endorsement books; registers of losses by fire; papers relating to claims; and photo album of fire and tornado damage.

The 'Place in the Sun' project, funded originally by Heritage Lottery Fund and led by London Archive Users Forum in partnership with the City of London Corporation, is an on-going project to index a run of policy registers (Ms 11936). So far (August 2010) the years 1792-1839 have been indexed. For further details please see LMA's website.

THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.

The records of the Accident Offices Association largely comprise minutes (mostly unsigned) with some accounts. The latter also relate to some of the other bodies with which the association was concerned. Initially, the business of the association was conducted through its chairman, the General Purposes Committee and the Rating Committee (from 1907). Committees were subsequently established to deal with particular areas of business, for example the Motor Offices Committee and Fidelity Offices Committee (in 1913). The work of these main committees was often carried out by standing committees; sub-committees were set up to deal with particular issues and aspects of the areas of business concerned. Additional committees were established as time went on, such as the Employers' Liability Committee (in 1947). An Emergency Powers Committee was set up in August 1939 to run the association during the Second World War; it functioned until June 1947. This explains the gaps in the main series of committee minutes between 1939 and 1947.

Records of the British Insurance Association, mainly minutes of General Meetings and Committee meetings. Many of the minutes are unsigned copies. In addition, many minutes are accompanied by related papers, such as agendas, reports and correspondence. The collection also includes extensive correspondence and circulars. The records are held off-site and require 48 hours notice for access.

Minutes and financial records of the Coal Pool, later the Colliery Pool, an association for sharing colliery insurance claims.

Minute 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.

The 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.

Minute books of the London Continental Fire Insurance Committee.