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DOUGLAS RITCHIE LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/Z

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DOUGLAS RITCHIE LIMITED

Date(s): 1945-1970

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.08 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Douglas Ritchie Ltd | construction company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Douglas Ritchie Limited was incorporated in July 1946 as a family construction company located in Welford-upon-Avon. Its directors were Major Douglas C. Ritchie and Mr. J. Pridding who were also the principle share holders along with Douglas Ritchie's wife Mrs. O.M. Ritchie.

Douglas Ritchie Limited was purchased by Flowers Breweries Limited in 1958 and subsequently became part of the Whitbread organisation when Flowers Breweries Limited was acquired in 1962.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Douglas Ritchie Limited, construction company, including papers relating to the acquisition of the Company by Flowers Brewery, accounts and annual returns, and correspondence relating to planning and building.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged in one series: LMA/4453/Z/01: Correspondence and accounts.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.

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:

Received in 2001 as a gift.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also reference LMA/4453/W (Flowers Breweries).

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: November 2009 to February 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Brewers | Food industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Building construction | Building operations | Construction engineering
Business acquisitions | Management operations
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Construction industry | Industry
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Mergers | Industrial policy | Industrial economics
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Douglas Ritchie Ltd | construction company

Places
Welford-on-Avon | Warwickshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe