IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/123-02
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: ASSAM AND AFRICAN INVESTMENTS LIMITED
Date(s): 1957-1967
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units.
Name of creator(s): Assam and African Investments Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This company was part of the Inchcape Group. It operated in Assam (India) and Kenya and Tanzania (East Africa).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Assam and African Investments Limited, including annual reports and financial records.
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:
The records of the companies within the Inchcape Group, though not those of Inchcape and Co Ltd itself, were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1987-88. The records 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
Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.