James Finlay & Co Ltd, tea planters, cotton manufacturers and East Indies merchants

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Date:	1792-2006
Places:	Catrine, Ayrshire Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Agriculture, forestry and fisheries > Plantations and ranches \| Shops, merchants and distributors > Overseas merchants \| Textiles > Cotton
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C112725 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B2952 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1792-1969: journals and ledgers, balance books, letter books, accounts, staff and wages records, records of subsidiaries etc	Glasgow University Archive Services	UGD 91	NRA 23054 Finlay See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 textiles and leather, 1990
2	1890-1940: further records incl minutes	Glasgow University Archive Services	UGD 91	See Annual Return 1995
3	papers rel to Consolidated Tea & Lands Co Ltd and Anglo American Tea Trading Co Ltd	Glasgow University Archive Services	ACCN 1733	See Annual Return 1998
4	c1860-1929: papers of Hugh B Muir incl cash book, journal of proceedings in Bombay, corresp	Glasgow University Archive Services	Acc 1829	See Annual Return 1999
5	1927-2000: staff records incl Calcutta, Julian Clough's papers, staff magazine	Glasgow University Archive Services	UGD 91	See Annual Return 2000
6	c1890-1979: volumes, files, photographs	Glasgow University Archive Services	UGD 91	See Annual Return 2001
7	1903-1907: wages book of Catrine bleaching works	Burns Monument Centre	AA/DC/7
8	1872-2006: board papers, reports, annual reports, photographs, corporate records of subsidiary companies, financial records, legal documents	Glasgow University Archive Services	ACCN 3119	See Annual Return 2007
9	20th cent: photographs of premises and staff	Glasgow University Archive Services	ACCN 3452	See Annual Return 2010
10	20th cent: corporate records of subsidiary companies	Glasgow University Archive Services	UGD 91	See Annual Return 2015