IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/123-24
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: GANGES TRANSPORT AND TRADING COMPANY LIMITED
Date(s): 1916-1963
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 production units.
Name of creator(s): Ganges Transport and Trading Co Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The company traded in West Bengal, India, as general merchants and agents, and was part of the Inchcape Group of companies.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Ganges Transport and Trading Company Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; annual statements of account; and half-yearly accounts.
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:
Access by appointment only. Please contact 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:
These archives were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1987-88 together with those of other companies in the Group. They were catalogued in 1988-9. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
This collection is a sub-fond within the Inchcape Group fonds. See CLC/B/123 for a list of all the companies represented in this collection and a history of the Inchcape Group.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
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: January to May 2011.