Catalogue description Crown Agents for the Colonies and predecessor: Shipping Files

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Details of CAOG 11
Reference: CAOG 11
Title: Crown Agents for the Colonies and predecessor: Shipping Files
Description:

Files of the Crown Agents, Shipping Division. Subjects covered include shipping and air freight services provided by the Crown Agents; the organization of the Shipping Department; correspondence with agents abroad and at UK ports, with principals and with freight companies including Greenshields Cowie and Co, who were later taken over by the Agents.
Date: 1891-1982
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: S and BS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, Shipping Division, 1954-1997

Crown Agents for the Colonies, Shipping Division, 1912-1954
Physical description: 194 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Shipping Division came into existence in 1912, when the work and staff of Messrs J A and B Freeland were taken over. Duties of the division included the shipping and insurance by sea and air of goods of all varieties ordered by the Crown Agents on behalf of Principals.

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