IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/123-25
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: GARDEN REACH SPINNING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED
Date(s): 1884-1915
Level of description: Collection
Extent: One production unit.
Name of creator(s): Garden Reach Spinning and Manufacturing Co Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Duncan MacKinnon and Lord Inchcape were directors of this company, which operated in the Garden Reach area of Calcutta, India, and had offices at Winchester House, 50 Old Broad Street. It went into voluntary liquidation in 1915. It was part of the Inchcape Group of companies.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Garden Reach Spinning and Manufacturing Company Limited, comprising board meeting minutes.
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.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
This minute book was deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1988 by Inchcape Plc, together with archives of other companies in the Group. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
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.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.