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ENGINEERING OFFICES ASSOCIATION


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/017-10

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ENGINEERING OFFICES ASSOCIATION

Date(s): 1920-1965

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 19 production units.

Name of creator(s): Engineering Offices Association | association of engineering insurers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Engineering Offices Association was set up on 15 December 1920 by companies interested in engineering insurance. It administered a tariff for engineering insurance established at the same time. The Association met at the offices of the Accident Offices Association which provided it with executive and secretarial services.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute books of the Engineering Offices Association, an association of engineering insurers.

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:

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:

The records were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by the Accident Offices Association on 27 June 1985. The deposit was converted to a gift in June 1994 by the Association of British Insurers. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Further information about the history of the Accident Offices Association can be found in the Accident Offices Association introductory notes; see CLC/B/017-02.

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
Insurance | Finance
Insurance records | Documents | Information sources
Insurance services | Financial service industries | Service industries
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations
Trade associations | Associations | Organizations
Engineering

Personal names

Corporate names
Engineering Offices Association | association of engineering insurers

Places
UK | Western Europe | Europe