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PHOENIX OIL PRODUCTS LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/178-04

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: PHOENIX OIL PRODUCTS LIMITED

Date(s): 1924-1952

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 34 production units.

Name of creator(s): Phoenix Oil Products Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The company was a subsidiary of Phoenix Oil and Transport Company. It was registered in 1924 as City Petroleum Finance Company Limited. It became Phoenix Oil Products Limited in 1926 when it took over from Phoenix Oil and Transport Company Limited the following marketing organisations in Europe:
- Everth A.G. (registered in Austria);
- Astra Dionicarsko Drustvo (registered in Yugoslavia);
- Mineraloelwerke Bayern GmbH (of Regensburg, Germany);
- Runo Oel A.G. (of Munich); and
- Deco S.A. (of Belgium).

Thus Phoenix Oil Products Limited came to manage all of Phoenix Oil and Transport's marketing organisations outside Roumania.

During the German occupation, 1941-45, these organisations were all in enemy hands.

Runo-Everth Treibstoff und Oel A.G. had been formed in 1938 as the result of a merger of Phoenix interests in Germany and Austria, but was forced to divide again after the war for political reasons. In 1949 these German and Austrian interests were sold to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (later British Petroleum). In 1946 Astra was taken into Yugoslav state ownership. In 1950 Phoenix Oil Products Limited went into voluntary liquidation.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The records of Phoenix Oil Products Limited comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1924, 1926 and 1947; minutes of board meetings, 1926-50 and general meetings, 1927-50; financial statements, 1927-47; directors' annual reports and accounts, 1927-46; ledgers, sales ledgers, journals and cash book, 1926-51; papers regarding the nationalisation of Roumanian industry, 1950; papers regarding liquidation, 1950-2; annual balance sheets and accounts of Runo-Everth Treibstoff und Oel A. G., 1939-49; reports on visits to offices of Runo-Everth Treibstoff und Oel A.G., 1947.

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:

Deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library together with those of the Phoenix Oil and Transport Co and other subsidiaries by the Official Receiver in 1988. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

CLC/B/178-01: Phoenix Oil and Transport Company Limited;
CLC/B/178-02: Arbanash (Roumania) Oil Company;
CLC/B/178-03: Orion S.A.R. de Petrol;
CLC/B/178-05: Roumanian Consolidated Oilfields Limited;
CLC/B/178-06: Unirea S.A.R. de Petrol.

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Nationalization | Economic policy
Oil extraction | Petroleum resources | Nonrenewable energy sources | Energy resources
Oil refineries | Industrial facilities | Facilities
Oil supply | Energy supply | Energy policy
Oilfields | Industrial facilities | Facilities
Petroleum | Fuels
Petroleum industry | Power industry | Industry

Personal names

Corporate names
Phoenix Oil Products Ltd

Places
Romania | Eastern Europe