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.