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BHOOTEACHANG TEA COMPANY LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/123-09

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BHOOTEACHANG TEA COMPANY LIMITED

Date(s): 1898-1949

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Bhooteachang Tea Co Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This company was one of the constituent companies of the Inchcape Group. The Bhooteachang Estate is situated in the district of Darrang, in Assam, India.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Bhooteachang Tea Company Limited, comprising annual reports with accounts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One bundle.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact 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:

These records were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library together with the archives of many of the other constituent companies. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

This collection is a sub-fond within the Inchcape Group fonds. See CLC/B/123 for a list of all the companies represented in this collection and a history of the Inchcape Group.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Tea | Plant products | Agricultural products
Tea trade | Food trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Bhooteachang Tea Co Ltd

Places
Assam | India | South Asia