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London Metropolitan Archives

HADDEN & COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-063

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HADDEN & COMPANY

Date(s): 1938

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 production unit comprising 1 envelope.

Name of creator(s): Hadden and Co Ltd | shipping agency

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Hadden and Company was registered in 1938 in Singapore as a private limited company of shipping agents. No other records are known to have survived. The Company's connection with Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112) is uncertain. It may be related to James A. Hadden and Company in which Harrisons and Crosfield held an interest.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Articles of associaton of Hadden & Company Limited, shipping agency.

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:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

The records of Harrisons and Crosfield and its subsidiary and secretarial companies were transferred to Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section between 1990 and 1998. The records were presented as a gift to the Library, except the minute books of some subsidiary companies which are held as a deposit. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd collection has been divided into 167 sub-fonds; CLC/B/112-001 to CLC/B/112-167. 001 to 016 are records relating to Harrisons and Crosfield (such as operational records, staff records, property records and so on), and 017 to 167 are the records of subsidiaries, plantations and associated organisations.

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: November 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Shipping | Maritime transport | Transport
Shipping agents | Commercial agents | Business people | People by occupation | People
Water transport

Personal names

Corporate names
Hadden & Co Ltd | shipping agency

Places
Singapore | South East Asia