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DELI ESTATES ENGINEERING AND GENERAL UNION LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-042

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DELI ESTATES ENGINEERING AND GENERAL UNION LIMITED

Date(s): 1911-1988

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 6 production units comprising 2 volumes, 1 binder and 3 envelopes.

Name of creator(s): Deli Estates Engineering and General Union Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Deli Estates Engineering and General Union Limited, general traders and recruiters of staff in the Far East (Malaya and Indonesia), was registered in 1914. In 1960/1 it was acquired by London Sumatra Plantations Limited (CLC/B/112-110). It became a private company in 1984. See also CLC/B/112/MS37276 for accounts 1910-34.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Deli Estates Engineering and General Union Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; circulars to shareholders and a ledger.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

ACCESS AND 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:

Restricted access: please see staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records of Harrisons and Crosfield and its subsidiary and secretarial companies were transferred to Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section between 1990 and 1998. The records were presented as a gift to the Library, except the minute books of some subsidiary companies which are held as a deposit. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd collection has been divided into 167 sub-fonds; CLC/B/112-001 to CLC/B/112-167. 001 to 016 are records relating to Harrisons and Crosfield (such as operational records, staff records, property records and so on), and 017 to 167 are the records of subsidiaries, plantations and associated organisations.

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 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
International trade | Trade
Personnel | People by occupation | People
Recruitment | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Deli Estates Engineering and General Union Ltd

Places
Indonesia | South East Asia
Malaysia | South East Asia