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DAVID ROBINSON AND COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/191

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DAVID ROBINSON AND COMPANY

Date(s): 1960-1969

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 production units.

Name of creator(s): David Robinson and Co Ltd | timber and plywood importers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Robinson, David and Company Limited were timber and plywood importers of Cardiff. British Borneo Timber Company Limited (later known as Sabah Timber Company) acquired shares in the firm in 1960.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of David Robinson and Company Limited, timber and plywood importers, comprising board minutes and agendas; correspondence with Sabah Timber Company; and financial 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:

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:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For the Sabah Timber Company see CLC/B/112-137.

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
Timber | Materials
Timber industry | Industry
Timber merchants | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
David Robinson and Co Ltd | timber and plywood importers
Sabah Timber Co Ltd

Places
Cardiff | Glamorgan | Wales | UK | Western Europe | Europe