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BRITISH INDIA ASSOCIATED STEAMERS LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/123-14

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BRITISH INDIA ASSOCIATED STEAMERS LIMITED

Date(s): 1885-1904

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 7 production units.

Name of creator(s): British India Associated Steamers Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The company was established in 1885 as a subsidiary of British India Steam Navigation Company (whose historic records are at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) and put into liquidation in 1903-1904. The directors met at the offices of Gray, Dawes and Company (CLC/B/123-30), British India's London agents. The firm's steamers operated between the United Kingdom, India and Queensland, Australia.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of British India Associated Steamers Limited, including board minutes; annual reports; 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:

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 archives were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1987-88 by Inchcape Plc as part of the Inchcape Group archives. 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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Freight services | Distribution services
Mail steamers | Vessels | Vehicles | Transport
Maritime transport | Transport
Steamships | Ships | Vehicles | Transport
Water transport

Personal names

Corporate names
British India Associated Steamers Ltd

Places
Australia | Oceania
India | South Asia
UK | Western Europe | Europe