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London Metropolitan Archives

GANGES TRANSPORT AND TRADING COMPANY LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/123-24

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: GANGES TRANSPORT AND TRADING COMPANY LIMITED

Date(s): 1916-1963

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 production units.

Name of creator(s): Ganges Transport and Trading Co Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The company traded in West Bengal, India, as general merchants and agents, and was part of the Inchcape Group of companies.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Ganges Transport and Trading Company Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; annual statements of account; and half-yearly accounts.

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:

These archives were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1987-88 together with those of other companies in the Group. They were catalogued in 1988-9. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

This collection is a sub-fond within the Inchcape Group fonds. See CLC/B/123 for a list of all the companies represented in this collection and a history of the Inchcape Group.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
International trade | Trade
Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Overseas trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Ganges Transport and Trading Co Ltd

Places
West Bengal | India | South Asia