IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-105
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LONDON ASIATIC RUBBER AND PRODUCE COMPANY LIMITED: LANADRON RUBBER ESTATES LIMITED
Date(s): 1907-1977
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units comprising 4 envelopes.
Name of creator(s): Lanadron Rubber Estates Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Lanadron Rubber Estates Limited: This company was registered in 1907 to acquire land in Johore, Malaya, and to take over the Lanadron and Jementah estates run by the Lanadron Estate Limited and Jementah Rubber Company Limited. In 1947 it acquired Cluny Rubber Estates Limited (CLC/B/112-104), Ledbury Rubber Estates Limited (CLC/B/112-106) and Rubber Estates of Johore Limited (CLC/B/112-107).
Lanadron Rubber Estates Limited was purchased by London Asiatic Rubber and Produce Company (CLC/B/112-103) in 1960, and in 1968/9 it went into voluntary liquidation.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Lanadron Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, circulars to shareholders, annual reports and photographs of the rubber estates.
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.