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ISLAY, KERR AND COMPANY LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/123-34

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ISLAY, KERR AND COMPANY LIMITED

Date(s): 1924-[1950]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 production units.

Name of creator(s): Islay, Kerr and Co Ltd | shipping agents and merchants

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This company carried out business as shipping agents and merchants in Singapore and Penang, Malaya and was part of the Inchcape Group.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Islay, Kerr and Company Limited, comprising accounts, correspondence and photograph album showing office accommodation.

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
Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Shipping | Maritime transport | Transport
Shipping agents | Commercial agents | Business people | People by occupation | People
Water transport

Personal names

Corporate names
Islay | Kerr and Co Ltd | shipping agents and merchants

Places
Malaysia | South East Asia
Singapore | South East Asia