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ZALONI TEA ESTATES LIMITED


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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Plantation records | Documents | Information sources
Plantations | Agricultural land
Tea | Plant products | Agricultural products
Tea trade | Food trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Zaloni Tea Estates Ltd

Places
India | South Asia