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SABAH TRADING COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-138

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SABAH TRADING COMPANY

Date(s): 1963-1984

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 production unit.

Name of creator(s): Sabah Trading Co Ltd | timber growers and merchants

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sabah Trading Company Limited, timber growers and merchants, was registered in March 1963 as Sabah Timber Company Limited. The name was changed to Sabah Trading Company Limited in October 1963 at the same time as British Borneo Timber Company Limited was re-named Sabah Timber Company Limited; see CLC/B/112-137.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Sabah Trading Company Limited, including articles of association, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.

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:

Available for general access.

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
Timber | Materials
Timber industry | Industry
Timber merchants | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
Sabah Trading Co Ltd | timber growers and merchants

Places
Borneo | South East Asia