Collection GB 0074 CLC/B/178-04 - PHOENIX OIL PRODUCTS LIMITED

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GB 0074 CLC/B/178-04

Title

PHOENIX OIL PRODUCTS LIMITED

Date(s)

  • 1924-1952 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

34 production units.

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Biographical history

The company was a subsidiary of Phoenix Oil and Transport Company. It was registered in 1924 as City Petroleum Finance Company Limited. It became Phoenix Oil Products Limited in 1926 when it took over from Phoenix Oil and Transport Company Limited the following marketing organisations in Europe:

  • Everth A.G. (registered in Austria);
  • Astra Dionicarsko Drustvo (registered in Yugoslavia);
  • Mineraloelwerke Bayern GmbH (of Regensburg, Germany);
  • Runo Oel A.G. (of Munich); and
  • Deco S.A. (of Belgium).

    Thus Phoenix Oil Products Limited came to manage all of Phoenix Oil and Transport's marketing organisations outside Roumania.

    During the German occupation, 1941-45, these organisations were all in enemy hands.

    Runo-Everth Treibstoff und Oel A.G. had been formed in 1938 as the result of a merger of Phoenix interests in Germany and Austria, but was forced to divide again after the war for political reasons. In 1949 these German and Austrian interests were sold to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (later British Petroleum). In 1946 Astra was taken into Yugoslav state ownership. In 1950 Phoenix Oil Products Limited went into voluntary liquidation.

Archival history

GB 0074 CLC/B/178-04 1924-1952 Collection 34 production units. Phoenix Oil Products Ltd

The company was a subsidiary of Phoenix Oil and Transport Company. It was registered in 1924 as City Petroleum Finance Company Limited. It became Phoenix Oil Products Limited in 1926 when it took over from Phoenix Oil and Transport Company Limited the following marketing organisations in Europe:

  • Everth A.G. (registered in Austria);
  • Astra Dionicarsko Drustvo (registered in Yugoslavia);
  • Mineraloelwerke Bayern GmbH (of Regensburg, Germany);
  • Runo Oel A.G. (of Munich); and
  • Deco S.A. (of Belgium).

    Thus Phoenix Oil Products Limited came to manage all of Phoenix Oil and Transport's marketing organisations outside Roumania.

    During the German occupation, 1941-45, these organisations were all in enemy hands.

    Runo-Everth Treibstoff und Oel A.G. had been formed in 1938 as the result of a merger of Phoenix interests in Germany and Austria, but was forced to divide again after the war for political reasons. In 1949 these German and Austrian interests were sold to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (later British Petroleum). In 1946 Astra was taken into Yugoslav state ownership. In 1950 Phoenix Oil Products Limited went into voluntary liquidation.

    Deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library together with those of the Phoenix Oil and Transport Co and other subsidiaries by the Official Receiver in 1988. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

    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.

    Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

    Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

    Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

    English

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

    CLC/B/178-01: Phoenix Oil and Transport Company Limited;
    CLC/B/178-02: Arbanash (Roumania) Oil Company;
    CLC/B/178-03: Orion S.A.R. de Petrol;
    CLC/B/178-05: Roumanian Consolidated Oilfields Limited;
    CLC/B/178-06: Unirea S.A.R. de Petrol.

    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.

    January to May 2011. Fuels Petroleum Energy policy Energy supply Oil supply Energy resources Nonrenewable energy sources Petroleum resources Oil extraction Facilities Industrial facilities Oil refineries Industry Power industry Petroleum industry Business records Documents Information sources Oilfields Nationalization Economic policy Phoenix Oil Products Ltd Romania Eastern Europe

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library together with those of the Phoenix Oil and Transport Co and other subsidiaries by the Official Receiver in 1988. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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Scope and content

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.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

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Conditions governing access

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

CLC/B/178-01: Phoenix Oil and Transport Company Limited;
CLC/B/178-02: Arbanash (Roumania) Oil Company;
CLC/B/178-03: Orion S.A.R. de Petrol;
CLC/B/178-05: Roumanian Consolidated Oilfields Limited;
CLC/B/178-06: Unirea S.A.R. de Petrol.

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

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London Metropolitan Archives

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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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  • English

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