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Papers of John Blythe Kinross, relating to various financial undertakings., 1927-1969.

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Identifier: Acc.8699/19

Scope and Contents

Containing:

British Corosit Button Co: copies of a speech made by Kinross at a creditors’ and shareholders’ meeting, 1931.

Old Gate Estates Ltd: transcript of the evidence of Kinross in the case against the valuers Topliss, Harding and Russell, 1939.

Crown Flour Mills: Printed report and accounts, 1939, 1942.

Public Benefit Boot Co: Printed note concerning the board, ca. 1940.

Col W A Bristow, the inventor of coalite: Autographed copy of Scope for July 1943, carrying an article about him.

Texas Land and Mortgage Co: papers connected with the attempt by Sir Denys Lowson to take it over, including Kinross’s attack on Lowson at a shareholders’ meeting in 1944.

Sterling poultry: Printed papers, 1955-60, with two letters of G G Belfield, 1953, 1958.

Technical Development Capital: correspondence of Kinross with Sir John Benn, 1962-5.

London Atlantic Investment Trust: propectus, 1966.

City of London Real Property Co: take over document by the Land Securities Investment Trust, 1969.

Miscellaneous printed prospectuses, 1927-8, 1936, including Beecham’s Pills, and the Ford Motor Company.

Prospectuses, 1928: examples of near fradulent issues.

Steel Industries of Great Britain Ltd: History of the formation of the Company, 1929, by Peter Morison.

Dates

  • Creation: 1927-1969.

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.

Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

Extent

1 Folders

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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