IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/EGLC
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: EQUITABLE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY
Date(s): 1831-1949
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company | 1831-1871
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
History: Formed 1831. Deed of Settlement, 1833. Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1842 - 5 + 6 Victoria, cap. 36. Amalgamated with (Chartered) Gas Light and Coke Company, 1871.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company, 1831-1949, including minutes of Director's meetings; minutes of shareholder meetings; minutes of Committee of Works; minutes of Committee of Accounts and General Purposes; minutes of the Conference of representatives from the Equitable, London and Chartered Gas Light Companies; deed of settlement; site plan of gasworks; legal case papers and press cuttings.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
B/EGLC/01 to B/ELGC/32.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
B/EGLC/22 and B/EGLC/28 are unfit for consultation.
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 March 1965 and September 1966.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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