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SURREY GAS CONSUMERS GAS COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/SY/C/G

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SURREY GAS CONSUMERS GAS COMPANY

Date(s): 1877-1879

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.05 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Surrey Gas Consumers Gas Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Surrey Gas Consumers Gas Company registered in 1854 under the Joint Stock Companies Act. In 1855 it purchased the works of Deptford Gas Light and Coke Company. Under the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company Act, 1876, the company amalgamated with the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company.

Note - Consumers Gas Companies were set up in consequence of dissatisfaction with the existing supplier.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Directors' Meetings Minutes for the Surrey Gas Consumers Gas Company, 1877-1879.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One volume

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

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 1977.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

B/SMETG: South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Gas companies | Utilities | Service industries
Gas supply | Energy supply | Energy policy
Gas utilities | Gas industry | Power industry | Industry
Gasworks | Industrial facilities | Facilities
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Surrey Gas Consumers Gas Company

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