IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4491
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BAE SYSTEMS PENSION SCHEME
Date(s): 1955-2006
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.08 linear metres
Name of creator(s): BAE Systems x British Aerospace
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
BAE Systems, formerly known as British Aerospace, is a global company engaged in the development, delivery and support of advanced defence and aerospace systems in the air, on land and at sea.
British Aerospace was formed in 1977, under the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act when British Aircraft Corporation was nationalised along with the Hawker Siddeley Group and Scottish Aviation.
BAE Systems operates a number of pension schemes, some of which are now closed to new members. This includes the BAE Systems Pension Scheme (Levels 125,167, 187 and 200), the 2000 Plan and the Royal Ordnance Scheme which were closed to new members from 5 April 2003.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of BAE Systems Pension Scheme including Pension Scheme explanatory booklets, leaflets and annual reports and accounts. Includes papers on new state pension arrangements (1926-1978). These papers include those kept by Peter G Dawes and Chris Bedford.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged as follows:
LMA/4491/01: BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
LMA/4491/02: BRITISH AEROSPACE
LMA/4491/03: BAE SYSTEMS
LMA/4491/04: OTHER COMPANIES
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.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright 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:
Deposited by The Pensions Archive Trust in 2008, 2009 and 2015.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
This collection forms part of the Pensions Archive.
For further material on British Aerospace see Anthony Davey's collection LMA/4603.
British Aerospace archives are held by the company.
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. Updated February 2016