Collection GB 0074 LMA/4598 - MAXWELL THE GAME'

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0074 LMA/4598

Title

MAXWELL THE GAME'

Date(s)

  • 1991 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

0.09 linear metres

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Produced by BMI Print (Division) Limited of Weston-super-Mare, the aim of the game is to land on the Maxwell Squares of the playing board and collect the five items - newspaper owner, yacht owner, football club director, cigar smoker and pension fund administrator - which enable you to become a tycoon. Risk squares around the board help you win or lose the cards. The game is won by reaching the pension fund.

The game was produced in the wake of the Maxwell Scandal in 1991, when the death of the media proprietor Robert Maxwell revealed that he had misused £450 million of his Mirror Group's pension fund.

Archival history

GB 0074 LMA/4598 1991 Collection 0.09 linear metres BMI Print (Division) Ltd

Produced by BMI Print (Division) Limited of Weston-super-Mare, the aim of the game is to land on the Maxwell Squares of the playing board and collect the five items - newspaper owner, yacht owner, football club director, cigar smoker and pension fund administrator - which enable you to become a tycoon. Risk squares around the board help you win or lose the cards. The game is won by reaching the pension fund.

The game was produced in the wake of the Maxwell Scandal in 1991, when the death of the media proprietor Robert Maxwell revealed that he had misused £450 million of his Mirror Group's pension fund.

Deposited in the Pensions Archive by Richard Malone in 2011.

'Maxwell The Game'; comprising 4 sections of the playing board, 30 Maxwell Cards, 2 dice and 12 playing pieces in a box.

One board game.

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Copyright is owned by a third party.
English.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

This collection forms part of the Pensions Archive.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Added to AIM25 April 2012.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited in the Pensions Archive by Richard Malone in 2011.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

'Maxwell The Game'; comprising 4 sections of the playing board, 30 Maxwell Cards, 2 dice and 12 playing pieces in a box.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

One board game.

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Conditions governing access

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright is owned by a third party.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

This collection forms part of the Pensions Archive.

Finding aids

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

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London Metropolitan Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Language(s)

  • English

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