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London Metropolitan Archives

COULDREY MOTORS LIMITED, CLAPHAM


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2785

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: COULDREY MOTORS LIMITED, CLAPHAM

Date(s): 1932-1948

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.33 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Couldrey Motors Limited
Couldrey Commercial Motor Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Couldrey Motors Limited was based at 24-28 High Street, Clapham and its related company, the Couldrey Commercial Motor Company traded from 36 Station Road, Camberwell Green. The former company operated several garages in South London at a time when the motor trade was expanding rapidly.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Couldrey Motors Limited, 1932-1948, including memorandum and articles of association; director's meeting minutes; trading and profit and loss accounts; correspondence; sales returns; stock lists and property costs. Also records of the Couldrey Commercial Motor Company, comprising balance sheets and trading and profit and loss accounts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Couldrey Motors Limited: ACC/2785/001-027 Couldrey Commercial Motor Company: ACC/2785/028-031.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gifted to the archive in 1990 (ACC/2785).

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: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Articles of association | Documents | Information sources
Commercial garages | Commercial premises
Companies | Enterprises
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Motor vehicle industry | Vehicle manufacture | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Motor vehicles | Vehicles | Transport
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Couldrey Commercial Motor Company
Couldrey Motors Limited

Places