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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