GARDEN REACH SPINNING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/123-25
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GARDEN REACH SPINNING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED
Date(s)	: 1884-1915
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: One production unit.
Name of creator(s)	: Garden Reach Spinning and Manufacturing Co Ltd

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Duncan MacKinnon and Lord Inchcape were directors of this company, which operated in the Garden Reach area of Calcutta, India, and had offices at Winchester House, 50 Old Broad Street. It went into voluntary liquidation in 1915. It was part of the Inchcape Group of companies.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Garden Reach Spinning and Manufacturing Company Limited, comprising board meeting minutes.

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:

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:

This minute book was deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1988 by Inchcape Plc, together with archives of other companies in the Group. 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.

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:
January to May 2011.