IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-124
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: PATALING RUBBER ESTATES LIMITED
Date(s): 1899-1984
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 43 production units comprising 10 volumes, 3 binders, 2 files, 1 box and 27 envelopes.
Name of creator(s): Pataling Rubber Estates Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Pataling Rubber Estates Limited was registered in 1920 to reconstitute Pataling Rubber Estates Syndicate Limited (registered in 1903) and to acquire estates on the Klang River near Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112) acted as secretaries from 1903.
Pataling Rubber Estates Limited acquired Pernambang Rubber Estates Limited (in 1933), Ulu Ayer Tawar Company Limited (1936), Anglo Malay Rubber Company (1952), Bikam Rubber Estate Limited (1952), Strathisla (Perak) Rubber Estates Limited (1956) and Jugra Land and Carey Limited (1959/60). In 1977 the company became resident in Malaysia for tax purposes, and was acquired by Harrisons Malaysian Estates (CLC/B/112-079). In April 1982 it became a private company.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Pataling Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports, circulars, correspondence, statistics, and photographs of the production of rubber, crepe and latex.
Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
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:
Restricted access: please see staff.
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.