IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-062
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: GOLDEN HOPE PLANTATIONS LIMITED: TAI TAK PLANTATIONS LIMITED
Date(s): 1920-1951
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units comprising 1 volume and 3 envelopes.
Name of creator(s): Tai Tak Plantations Ltd | rubber plantation
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Tai Tak Plantations Limited was registered in 1922 to re-constitute Tai Tak (Johore) Rubber Estates Limited (originally registered May 1920) and to acquire the Tai Tak and Himyuen estates in Johore, Malaya. In 1926 it took over Sungei Dangan (Malaya) Rubber Company Limited. It was acquired by Golden Hope Rubber Estate Limited (CLC/B/112-054) in 1950/1.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Tai Tak Plantations Limited, comprising articles of association, annual reports, and circulars.
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.