ASSOCIATED FIRE INSURERS (GOVERNMENT COMMODITIES) MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/227-007
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: ASSOCIATED FIRE INSURERS (GOVERNMENT COMMODITIES) MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Date(s)	: 1948-1957
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: One production unit.
Name of creator(s)	: Associated Fire Insurers (Government Commodities) Management Committee

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Government Commodities Fire Insurance Scheme was set up in May 1940 to protect valuable raw commodities during the Second World War. The Associated Fire Insurers (Government Commodities) Management Committee (based at 66 Cheapside) advised the Government, through the Ministry of Supply, Board of Trade, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, UK Dominion Wool Disposals Limited and the Raw Cotton Commission, on the insuring of raw commodities such as wool, cotton, pit wood and molasses, stored in the United Kingdom and abroad.

The scheme ended on 31 March 1957. The committee was wound up by the Joint Secretariat of the Associated Insurers (British Electricity) Management Committee (set up 1949) and the British Insurance (Atomic Energy) Committee (set up 1956) which comprised two members of its staff (the committee had agreed to make its organisation available to these bodies on their establishment). The records were passed to the Fire Offices' Committee.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute book of the Associated Fire Insurers (Government Commodities) Management Committee.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One item.

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:

Deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library along with records of the Fire Offices' Committee. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Further details about the history of the Fire Offices' Committee and the deposit of the records are given in the Fire Offices' Committee introductory notes, see CLC/B/017-11.

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.