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London Metropolitan Archives

PHILLIPS, HARRISONS AND CROSFIELD LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-130

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: PHILLIPS, HARRISONS AND CROSFIELD LIMITED

Date(s): 1962-1974

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 production units comprising 4 envelopes.

Name of creator(s): Phillips, Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd | traders in tea

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Phillips, Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, traders in tea, was registered in 1965 on the merger of the Harrisons and Crosfield's branch business in Nairobi, Kenya (established in 1963) and the firm of P. Phillips and Company Limited. In 1974 an African registered company, Apex Distributors Limited, was formed and controlled by Phillips, Harrisons and Crosfield Limited with a minority shareholding. In 1987 Harrisons and Crosfield sold their 50% holding in Phillips, Harrisons and Crosfield.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Phillips, Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, traders in tea, including minutes of meetings, papers concerning the formation of a branch in Kenya, and papers concerning the formation of a distribution company in Africa.

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:

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
Tea | Plant products | Agricultural products
Tea trade | Food trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Phillips | Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd | traders in tea

Places
Kenya | East Africa