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London Metropolitan Archives

ASSAM AND AFRICAN INVESTMENTS LIMITED. ASSAM AND AFRICAN HOLDINGS LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/123-04

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ASSAM AND AFRICAN INVESTMENTS LIMITED. ASSAM AND AFRICAN HOLDINGS LIMITED

Date(s): 1957-1967

Level of description: Collection

Extent: Eight production units.

Name of creator(s): Assam and African Holdings Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Assam and African Investments Limited 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 Holdings Limited, including board minutes and agendas; annual report with accounts; ledger and out-letter books.

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

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
Foreign investment | International monetary systems | Monetary policy | Financial policy | Finance
Holding companies | Companies | Enterprises
Investment | Finance
Investment companies | Companies | Enterprises

Personal names

Corporate names
Assam and African Holdings Ltd
Assam and African Investments Ltd

Places
Assam | India | South Asia
Kenya | East Africa
Tanzania UR | East Africa