IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-167
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: ZALONI TEA ESTATES LIMITED
Date(s): 1924-1976
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 production unit.
Name of creator(s): Zaloni Tea Estates Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Zaloni Tea Estates Limited was registered in 1910 to acquire Zaloni Tea Co Limited (registered in 1907 in India). Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112) became secretaries and agents of the company in 1954. In 1976 the company was acquired by Warren Plantation Holdings Limited.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Zaloni Tea Estates Limited, comprising annual reports and accounts; and circulars.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One file.
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.