IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/179
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: PLYWOOD CHEST ASSOCIATION
Date(s): 1927-1972
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 71 production units comprising 16 volumes, 27 binders, 4 bundles and 24 envelopes.
Name of creator(s): Plywood Chest Association
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Plywood Chest Association was formed in 1932 by a group of tea chest manufacturers and distributors to establish a quota selling scheme and for synchronisation of distribution. All meetings of the six members (Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, ACME Tea Chest Company Limited, Bobbins Limited (previously British plywood importers), Lea Elliott (London) Limited, Luralda Limited and Venesta Limited) were held at Harrisons and Crosfield Limited's offices. A branch of the Association, the Ceylon Plywood Chest Association, held its meetings at the offices of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited's Colombo branch.
The accounts date back to 1927 as the quota granted to each of the sellers was based on their respective shipments from Europe during the previous five years. Each seller was therefore required to submit figures of chest shipped 1927-32.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Plywood Chest Association including minutes; agreements; memoranda; correspondence; sales ledgers; financial accounts; monthly returns of shipments; price lists and lists of members' agents.
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:
Available for general access.
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:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For the records of Harrisons and Crossfield Limited see CLC/B/112; particularly CLC/B/112-035, Chest Components Limited.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.