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GLASGOW RATE AND SALVAGE ASSOCIATION


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/017-14

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: GLASGOW RATE AND SALVAGE ASSOCIATION

Date(s): 1913

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 production unit.

Name of creator(s): Fire Offices' Committee | Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association was formed in 1847. Formerly known as the Agents Fire Rate Committee; Glasgow Fire Rate Committee, and Glasgow Fire Insurance Committee.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association, comprising a deed of constitution.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Fire Offices' Committee records, and those of the other organisations associated with it (apart from some minutes and other records which were found amongst the archives of the Sun Insurance Office and the records of the London Wharf and Warehouse Committee which have been listed separately) were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library on 26 and 27 June 1985, and on 30 April and 1 June 1987. In June 1994 the deposit was converted to a gift by the Association of British Insurers. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Fire Offices' Committee general meetings minute books contain minutes of the Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association and its predecessors (1861-1904), see CLC/B/017-11. The London Salvage Corps papers include annual reports and accounts of the Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association, see CLC/B/-017-23.

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
Fire insurance | Insurance | Finance
Insurance records | Documents | Information sources
Insurance services | Financial service industries | Service industries
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations
Salvage | Rescue work
Trade associations | Associations | Organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Fire Offices' Committee | association for fire insurance providers
Fire Offices' Committee | Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association

Places
Glasgow | Lanarkshire | Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe