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CORRIE MACCOLL & SON


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-037

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CORRIE MACCOLL & SON

Date(s): 1919-1935

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 production units comprising 2 envelopes.

Name of creator(s): Corrie MacColl & Son Ltd | rubber dealers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Corrie MacColl and Son Limited was formed in 1919 to reconstitute Corrie MacColl and Company, a firm of produce dealers and agents originally registered in 1902. Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112-001) invested in the Company in 1919, and Corrie MacColl & Son Limited took over Harrisons and Crosfield's rubber dealing and Eastern produce departments. Archibald MacGregor MacColl was on the board of Harrisons and Crosfield, 1919-25.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Corrie MacColl and Son Limited, rubber dealers, including monthly financial statements and agreements.

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
Rubber goods | Industrial products
Rubber industry and trade | Manufacturing industry | Industry

Personal names

Corporate names
Corrie MacColl & Son Ltd | rubber dealers

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe