IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-075
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HARRISONS AND CROSFIELD SECURITIES LIMITED
Date(s): 1958-1981
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units comprising 4 envelopes.
Name of creator(s): Harrisons and Crosfield Securities Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Harrisons and Crosfield Securities Limited, an investment holding company, was registered in 1958. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112). It held shares in many of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited's companies, including Chandler, Hargreaves, Whittall and Company Limited (CLC/B/112-032), Harrisons and Crosfield (Hong Kong) Limited (CLC/B/112-070), Technical Advisory and Services Company Limited (CLC/B/112-154), and Irwin Harrisons and Whitney Incorporated (CLC/B/112-089). In 1967 it acquired control of Durham Chemical Group Limited (CLC/B/112-046). The Company is last mentioned as a subsidiary in the annual report and accounts of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited in 1989.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Harrisons and Crosfield Securities Limited, including minutes and agendas; annual reports; general correspondence and list of investments.
Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Restricted access: please see staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records of Harrisons and Crosfield and its subsidiary and secretarial companies were transferred to Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section between 1990 and 1998. The records were presented as a gift to the Library, except the minute books of some subsidiary companies which are held as a deposit. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
The Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd collection has been divided into 167 sub-fonds; CLC/B/112-001 to CLC/B/112-167. 001 to 016 are records relating to Harrisons and Crosfield (such as operational records, staff records, property records and so on), and 017 to 167 are the records of subsidiaries, plantations and associated organisations.
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 2010 to January 2011.