IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/017-25
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LONDON WEST AFRICA INSURANCE COMMITTEE
Date(s): 1958-1975
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 production unit.
Name of creator(s): Fire Offices' Committee | London West Africa Insurance Committee
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The first formal meeting of the London West Africa Insurance Committee was held on 26 September 1958. Its aims were to protect and promote the interests of companies transacting direct insurance business in Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. It was set up under the auspices of the Fire Offices Committee (Foreign) (see CLC/B/017-12) and its chairman and secretary were also the chairman and secretary of the parent organisation. It was managed and administered by the Fire Offices' Committee (see CLC/B/017-11).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minute book of the London West Africa 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.