CARST AND WALKER HOLDINGS (PROPRIETARY) LIMITED

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/112-029
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: CARST AND WALKER HOLDINGS (PROPRIETARY) LIMITED
Date(s)	: 1959-1970
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: 1 file in envelope.
Name of creator(s)	: Carst and Walker Holdings (Proprietary) Ltd

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

This company was registered c 1958 in South Africa, with a head office in Johannesburg, as A W Jones, Walker and Carst (Proprietary) Limited. The name changed to Carst and Walker Holdings (Proprietary) Limited in July 1944. It dealt in timber, textiles, chemicals, produce and other general trading.

In 1959 Harrisons and Crosfield Limited (CLC/B/112-001 to 016) purchased half the share capital. Previously Carst and Walker Holdings (Proprietary) Limited had acted as selling agents of British Borneo Timber Company. In 1969 Carst and Walker Holdings (Proprietary) Limited became a public company and changed its name to Carst and Walker Holdings Limited.

For lists of Company staff see CLC/B/112/MS37341. For papers concerning Japanese interests, see CLC/B/112/MS37901.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Carst and Walker Holdings (Proprietary) Limited, relating to the purchase of share capital by Harrisons and Crosfield Limited.

Access & 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:

The records of Harrisons and Crosfield and its subsidiary and secretarial companies were transferred to Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section between 1990 and 1998. The records were presented as a gift to the Library, except the minute books of some subsidiary companies which are held as a deposit. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd collection has been divided into 167 sub-fonds; CLC/B/112-001 to CLC/B/112-167. 001 to 016 are records relating to Harrisons and Crosfield (such as operational records, staff records, property records and so on), and 017 to 167 are the records of subsidiaries, plantations and associated organisations.

Publication note:

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:
November 2010 to January 2011.