DELMEGE, ALLEN AND COMPANY LIMITED

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/123-20
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: DELMEGE, ALLEN AND COMPANY LIMITED
Date(s)	: 1919-1964
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 2 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Delmege, Allen and Co Ltd | shipping agents

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

This company, shipping agents of 101 Leadenhall Street, was established in 1919 as Delmege and Company to act for Delmege, Forsyth and Company (CLC/B/123-20) in the UK. It became Delmege, Allen and Company in 1920. Delmege, Allen and Company and Delmege, Forsyth and Company were both part of the Inchcape Group of companies.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Delmege, Allen and Company Limited, shipping agents, comprising memorandum and articles of association, and balance sheets.

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 together with those of other companies in the Inchcape group in 1987-88. 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.