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WALLACE BROTHERS AND COMPANY (HOLDINGS) LIMITED: LESLIE AND ANDERSON LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/207-14

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WALLACE BROTHERS AND COMPANY (HOLDINGS) LIMITED: LESLIE AND ANDERSON LIMITED

Date(s): 1953-1968

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 2.5 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Leslie and Anderson Limited

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Leslie and Anderson Limited was an investment dealing company, large importing house and exporters of produce. In 1952 Wallace Brothers, through Wyer and Hawke, joined in the operations of Leslie and Anderson Limited which opened up considerable investment opportunities in Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar.The Warehousing and Forwarding Company of East Africa was a subsidy of Leslie and Anderson (East Africa) Limited dealing with warehousing, clearing and forwarding. Indian Carpets Limited was a subsidiary of Leslie and Anderson, who owned fifty percent of the business in 1950s and acquired the remaining forty percent in June 1960.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Leslie and Anderson Limited including records of Leslie and Anderson Limited, Leslie and Anderson (Holdings) Limited and The Leslie and Anderson Group. Also contains records of subsidiaries: Leslie and Anderson (Coffee) Limited, Leslie and Anderson (East Africa) Limited, Warehousing and Forwarding Company of East Africa Limited and Indian Carpets Limited (CLC/B/207/MS40815 - MS40824, MS40831 - MS40854, MS40921, MS40924).

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:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

48 hours notice required for access.

PLEASE NOTE: Permission to access records less than 45 years old should be sought from the depositor.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is held by 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:

These archives were deposited as part of the archives of Wallace Brothers; deposited in Guildhall Library in 1974-6. The deposits were converted to a gift in 1988. Between 1988 and 1991 additional gifts of material were made to the Library. All were previously stored at the London office of Wallace Brothers, and all but a few of the papers were either created there or received there in the course of business. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: Added January 2014


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Export trading companies | Trading companies | Companies | Enterprises
Importers | People by roles | People
Investment companies | Companies | Enterprises

Personal names

Corporate names
Leslie and Anderson Limited

Places
Kenya | East Africa
Uganda | East Africa
Zanzibar | Tanzania UR | East Africa