IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4435/F
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CLAUDE-GENERAL NEON LIGHTS
Date(s): 1921-1985
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.52 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Claude-General Neon Lights | neon light manufacturers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Claude-General Neon Lights was launched by the General Electric Company in 1930, in partnership with the French inventor Georges Claude. According to the Times of 1 July 1931, General Electic Company reported at their Annual General Meeting that "this company occupies itself with the production and sale of luminous gas discharge devices for advertising and other purposes. Already the Air Ministry have placed important contracts through the G.E.C. with Claude-General for Neon Beacons, and the company is also carrying out a large contract for the Croydon Aerodrome for luminous devices connected with the safe landing of aeroplanes during fog". By 1939 Claude-General was described at the G.E.C AGM as the "leading company in the electrical sign world".
In 1960 the name changed to Claudgen Limited. Further name changes: Lloydsecond Limited in 1992; The Tetley Visitor Centre Limited 1993; Tetley's Brewery Wharf Limited 2000; became Leeds Wharf Limited which was dissolved in 2009.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Claude-General Neon Lights, neon light manufacturers, 1921-1985. This collection contains corporate and accounts records including minutes of Directors' meetings, register of Directors and Members, articles of association, annual returns and end of year accounts.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Nine documents catalogued as LMA/4435/F/01/001-009.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation 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:
Received as a gift in 2002.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010