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London Metropolitan Archives

OLDHAM SIGN SERVICE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4435/G

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: OLDHAM SIGN SERVICE

Date(s): 1930-1988

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.32 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Oldham Sign Service | sign makers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Oldham Sign Service were manufacturers of neon signs. It is possible that they merged with Claude-General Neon Lights in the 1960s.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Oldham Sign Service, sign makers, 1930-1988. This collection contains corporate and accounts records including minutes of Directors' meetings, documents relating to Annual General Meetings, articles of association, trading agreements, asset transfer documents and some general correspondence.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Sixteen documents catalogued as LMA/4435/G/01/001-016.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received as a gift in 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Articles of association | Documents | Information sources
Brewing industry | Food industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Electric lighting | Lighting
Lighting equipment | Equipment
Signs and signboards | Non-verbal information transfer | Information transfer | Communication process
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Allied Breweries Ltd
Oldham Sign Service | sign makers

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe