IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-154
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: TECHNICAL ADVISORY AND SERVICE COMPANY
Date(s): 1963-1965
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 production unit.
Name of creator(s): Technical Advisory and Service Co Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Technical Advisory and Service Company Limited was formed in 1963 as general engineering consultants. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112-001-016). One of its principal activities was the selling, on an agency basis, of palm oil processing machinery.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence and papers of the Technical Advisory and Service Company Limited.
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
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.