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LONDON SOUTH AFRICAN INSURANCE COMMITTEE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/017-24

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LONDON SOUTH AFRICAN INSURANCE COMMITTEE

Date(s): 1966-1975

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 production unit.

Name of creator(s): Fire Offices' Committee | London South African Insurance Committee

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The first formal meeting of the London South African Insurance Committee was held on 1 September 1966. Its aims were to promote and protect the interests of companies transacting direct insurance business in the Republic of South Africa, south west Africa, Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland. It was set up under the auspices of the Fire Offices' Committee (Foreign) (see CLC/B/017-12) and was managed and administered by the Fire Offices' Committee (see CLC/B/017-11). It disbanded on 11 August 1976.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute book of the London South African Insurance Committee.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Fire Offices' Committee records, and those of the other organisations associated with it (apart from some minutes and other records which were found amongst the archives of the Sun Insurance Office and the records of the London Wharf and Warehouse Committee which have been listed separately) were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library on 26 and 27 June 1985, and on 30 April and 1 June 1987. In June 1994 the deposit was converted to a gift by the Association of British Insurers. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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: November 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Fire insurance | Insurance | Finance
Insurance records | Documents | Information sources
Insurance services | Financial service industries | Service industries
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations
Trade associations | Associations | Organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Fire Offices' Committee | association for fire insurance providers
Fire Offices' Committee | Fire Offices' Committee (Foreign)
Fire Offices' Committee | London South African Insurance Committee

Places
South Africa | Southern Africa