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London Metropolitan Archives

NEW CRESCENT (HOLDINGS) LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-120

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: NEW CRESCENT (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

Date(s): 1957-1984

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 production units comprising 2 envelopes.

Name of creator(s): New Crescent (Holdings) Ltd | investment company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

New Crescent (Holdings) Limited was registered in 1957 as an investment company holding investments mainly in plantations companies operating in West Malaysia. In 1972 Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112) took over from Taylor, Noble and Company as secretaries of New Crescent (Holdings) Limited. The company was wholly owned by Sungei Bahru Rubber Estates Limited (CLC/B/112-147). See also CLC/B/112/MS37838 for circulars and other papers relating to the company.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of New Crescent (Holdings) Limited, investment company, including board minutes, annual reports and accounts.

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
Investment trusts | Investment | Finance
Financial resources

Personal names

Corporate names
New Crescent (Holdings) Ltd | investment company
Sungei Bahru Rubber Estates Ltd

Places
Malaysia | South East Asia