ASSAM ESTATES LIMITED

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/123-06
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: ASSAM ESTATES LIMITED
Date(s)	: 1910-1977
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: 15 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Assam Estates Ltd

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Assam Estates Limited was a tea company operating in Assam, 1910 to 1977. It was part of the Inchcape Group.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Assam Estates Limited, tea company, including ledgers, journals, cash books and book of bills payable.

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:

Deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1987 and 1988 by Inchcape Plc, together with the records of many other constituent companies of the Inchcape Group.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.

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.