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National Maritime Museum

Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company Limited

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 TCM

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company Limited

Date(s): [1920-1964]

Level of description: Collection

Extent:

Name of creator(s): Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company Limited

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company Limited. The main series consist of contracts including for the supply, laying and repair of cables (TCM/6), cable engineers' logbooks (TCM/8) and ships' logbooks (TCM/10). Other records include memorandum and articles of association 1964-1920, papers relating to the SS GREAT EASTERN and the first Atlantic cables, publicity material and books and pamphlets. The collection also contains records of the Gutta Percha Company, H W Jewesbury and Company and personal papers of Willoughby Smith.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was given as a gift in 1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Oct 2011.