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London Metropolitan Archives

BAJOE KIDOEL RUBBER AND PRODUCE COMPANY LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-024

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BAJOE KIDOEL RUBBER AND PRODUCE COMPANY LIMITED

Date(s): 1911-1988

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 14 production units comprising 5 volumes, 2 binders and 7 envelopes.

Name of creator(s): Bajoe Kidoel Rubber and Produce Co Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This company was registered in 1911 to acquire Bajoe Kidoel, Anim Sand and Trebla Sala estates in Besoeki residency in Java. Its leaseholds and other assets in Java were vested in: N.V. Rubber Cultuur Mij Bajoe Kidoel (from 1960 known as P.T. Perusahaan Perkebunan Bajoe Kidoel), N.V. Bajoe Kidoel Mij and N.V. Celebes Landbouw Mij (from 1960 known as P.T. Perusahaan Perkebunan Sulawesi).

In 1933 it acquired Macassar Plantations Limited. Bajoe Kidoel Rubber and Produce Company Limited was acquired by London Sumatra Plantations Limited (CLC/B/112-110) in 1961, and in 1982 it became a private company.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Bajoe Kidoel Rubber and Produce Company Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; circulars; photograph album showing coffee and rubber estates; and ledgers.

Access to records less than 30 years old 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.

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.

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
Coffee trade | Food trade | Trade (practice)
Plantation records | Documents | Information sources
Plantations | Agricultural land
Rubber goods | Industrial products
Rubber industry and trade | Manufacturing industry | Industry

Personal names

Corporate names
Bajoe Kidoel Rubber and Produce Co Ltd

Places
Java | Indonesia | South East Asia