WALLACE BROTHERS AND COMPANY (HOLDINGS) LIMITED: BOMBAY COMPANY LIMITED

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/207-10
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: WALLACE BROTHERS AND COMPANY (HOLDINGS) LIMITED: BOMBAY COMPANY LIMITED
Date(s)	: 1886-1973
Level of description	: sub fonds View parent record
Extent	: 3.2 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Bombay Company Limited

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Bombay Company Limited was founded in 1886 to take on the activities undertaken by Wallace and Company Limited aside from the supervision on the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited.The main business of the Bombay Company Limited was the export of raw cotton and the import and sale of manufactured textiles from Lancashire. Its head office was in Bombay but it also took over the former Wallace and Company branch in Karachi. Further branches were opened in Delhi in 1893, Calcutta in 1903 and Madras in 1906. Two former managing directors, E J Hawke and M R Wyer. went on to form Wyer and Hawke in 1912. The sale of Manchester piece goods decreased in the early twentieth century. In 1936, the Bombay Company Limited were involved in the purchase of the entire share capital of the New Pralhad Mill. The Bombay Company Limited ceased trading in 1969.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Bombay Company Limited including corporate records and records relating to shares, administration, accounting, legal matters, staff, history and subsidiares (CLC/B/207/MS40743 - MS40785). The records contain correspondence on the production of cotton and cotton mills, accounts and records relating to the following subsidiaries: BCL Limited, BMD Agency Limited, Dymes and Company Limited, Karachi Company Limited, Lakhshmi Cotton Manufacturing Company Limited, Miller and McGregor Limited and Vishnu Cotton Mill 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:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998

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Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is held by the depositor.

Finding aids:

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These archives were deposited as part of the archives of Wallace Brothers; deposited in Guildhall Library in 1974-6. The deposits were converted to a gift in 1988. Between 1988 and 1991 additional gifts of material were made to the Library. All were previously stored at the London office of Wallace Brothers, and all but a few of the papers were either created there or received there in the course of business. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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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:
Added January 2014