IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-038
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: COWIE HARBOUR COAL COMPANY LIMITED
Date(s): 1911-1939
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units comprising 1 volume and 3 envelopes.
Name of creator(s): Cowie Harbour Coal Co Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Cowie Harbour Coal Company Limited was registered in 1905 to take over Sandakan Bay Coal Field Limited, including a concession of 1904 to mine coal in the Surudong district of North Borneo. The Company held prospecting rights over 900 square miles. Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112) became secretaries and agents of the Company in 1920. In 1937 Cowie Harbour Coal Company Limited went into voluntary liquidation.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Cowie Harbour Coal Company Limited, including articles of association; ledger; and report on coal produced at Borneo.
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
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.