RIVER GAMBIA TRADING COMPANY
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0074 CLC/B/227-156 |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : RIVER GAMBIA TRADING COMPANY |
Date(s) | : 1882-1899 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : One production unit. |
Name of creator(s) | : River Gambia Trading Co Ltd x Bathurst Trading Co Ltd |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The company, later known as the Bathurst Trading Company Limited, had premises successively at 5 Drapers' Gardens and 16 Mincing Lane. It was associated with Lintott, Spink and Company, Africa merchants, and William Goddard and Company, Africa and general merchants.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Agreements for the hire of vessels at Bathurst, Australia, to the River Gambia Trading Company Limited.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
One volume.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
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:
Presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by the Business Archives Council in 1967. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
Allied Materials
Related material:
See also CLC/B/146: Lintott, Spink and Company, Africa merchants.
The main archives of the River Gambia Trading Company Ltd are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics. They cover the period ca 1867-1920.
Publication note:
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.
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