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EQUITABLE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY


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


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Business administration | Business
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Companies | Enterprises
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Gas companies | Utilities | Service industries
Gas utilities | Gas industry | Power industry | Industry
Business x Enterprises
Business administration x Business management
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Corporate names
Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company | 1831-1871

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