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WILKINSON NOVATEX LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-164

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WILKINSON NOVATEX LIMITED

Date(s): 1943-1949

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 6 production units comprising 1 volume and 5 envelopes.

Name of creator(s): Wilkinson Novatex Ltd | manufacturer in plastics

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This company was registered in 1943 in London to manufacture, process or deal in plastics or synthetic material. It was a subsidiary company of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112-001-016). It had a factory in Camberley, Surrey.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Wilkinson Novatex Limited, manufacturers in plastics, including articles of association; minutes, agendas and papers presented; annual reports and accounts; and papers relating to liquidation.

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:

Available for general access.

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Manufacturers | Industrial personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Plastics | Polymers | Organic compounds | Chemical compounds
Plastics industry | Chemical industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry

Personal names

Corporate names
Wilkinson Novatex Ltd | manufacturer in plastics

Places
Surrey | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe