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London Metropolitan Archives

WHOLESALE CHEMISTS AND ALLIED TRADES PROTECTION ASSOCIATION


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/026-7

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WHOLESALE CHEMISTS AND ALLIED TRADES PROTECTION ASSOCIATION

Date(s): 1913-1939

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 production units.

Name of creator(s): Wholesale Chemists and Allied Trades Protection Association

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Francis Nicholls White and Company owned a number of trade associations formed as specialised branches of the agency, including the Wholesale Chemists and Allied Trades Protection Association. The aims of the association were to safeguard members against the risk of bad debts, to recover overdue accounts and to minimise the loss to members in insolvencies.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Wholesale Chemists and Allied Trades Protection Association, comprising Trade Advisory Committee minute book; prospectuses, and papers relating to the insolvency of a specific company.

Access is restricted to records less than 30 years old where specified and 24 hours notice is required for access to all the records.

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 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 archives of Booth White together with those of Nicholls and Leatherdale, Francis Nicholls White and Company, the British Mercantile Agency and its trade protection associations, and Parkin S Booth and Company were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library on 12 November 1992 by Booth White through P. Granville White via the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Publication note:

For a brief history of Booth White and its constituent bodies see P. Granville White, Booth White & Co (1983) (available in the collection, see CLC/B/026/MS28898).

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
Debt relief | External debt | Public debt | State budget | Public finance | Finance
Insolvency | Finance
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations
Trade associations | Associations | Organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Francis Nicholls White and Co | insolvency accountants
Wholesale Chemists and Allied Trades Protection Association

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe