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WALLACE BROTHERS AND COMPANY (HOLDINGS) LIMITED: WALLACE AND COMPANY BOMBAY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/207-16

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WALLACE BROTHERS AND COMPANY (HOLDINGS) LIMITED: WALLACE AND COMPANY BOMBAY

Date(s): 1864-1976

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1.5 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Sumatra Petroleum Company x Wallace and Company Bombay

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sumatra Petroleum Company was formed under the auspices of the Sumatra branch of Wallace and Company to work the oil resources of the Dutch East Indies. The venture failed and the Company was closed in 1905.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Wallace and Company Bombay including records relating to Bombay and Rangoon branches. Includes letter books, power of attorney and correspondence relating to accounts, shares, staff and petroleum (CLC/B/207/MS40875 - MS40926). Also includes papers relating to the formation of the Sumatra Petroleum Company.

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:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

48 hours notice required for access.

PLEASE NOTE: Permission to access records less than 45 years old should be sought from the depositor.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is held by 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 archives were deposited as part of the archives of Wallace Brothers; deposited in Guildhall Library in 1974-6. The deposits were converted to a gift in 1988. Between 1988 and 1991 additional gifts of material were made to the Library. All were previously stored at the London office of Wallace Brothers, and all but a few of the papers were either created there or received there in the course of business. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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: Added January 2014


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Petroleum resources | Nonrenewable energy sources | Energy resources

Personal names

Corporate names
Sumatra Petroleum Company

Places
Indonesia | South East Asia
Netherlands East Indies x Indonesia