China Navigation Company Property

These files consist of two different series 4/1-8 being bound volumes of flimsy copies of letters from John Swire & Sons London to Butterfield & Swire Hong Kong and Shanghai for 1900 to 1914; 4/9-28 being correspondence between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire Hong Kong and...

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Archive & Special Collections JSS/3/4 Open

Date(s) of creation: 1870-1978
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSS.3.4
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber JSS/3/4
callnumber_txt JSS/3/4
callnumber-sort JSS/3/4
scb_alt_ref_no JSSIII 4
prefix_number 4
title China Navigation Company Property
scb_date_creation 1870-1978
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
scb_extent 52 boxes; 48 files
format Archive
description These files consist of two different series 4/1-8 being bound volumes of flimsy copies of letters from John Swire & Sons London to Butterfield & Swire Hong Kong and Shanghai for 1900 to 1914; 4/9-28 being correspondence between John Swire & Sons and Butterfield & Swire Hong Kong and Shanghai. Both series concern China Navigation Company [CNCo] owned go-downs, wharfs, houses and equipment and cover the purchase, leasing, planning, building, maintenance and selling of property. While Shanghai dealt with China Navigation Company property in the city itself, in the coastal ports and on the Yangtze River, Hong Kong was responsible for its own property, Canton and Japan.4/9-28 have good indexes, 4/9-18 being arranged chronologically with a subject synopsis and 4/19-28 arranged by subject under Hong Kong or Shanghai 4/1-8 do not have such clear indexes and each volume has a different lay-out, often very muddled. Further papers relating to CNCo property can be found in JSSI 6/1-5 and legal papers concerning deeds, purchase etc in JSSIII 8 Series also includes property registers.
scb_place_code 1819730
1814991
2643743
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
scb_use_restrictions Copying for personal research purposes is permitted. Please contact the archivist for all publication requests.
language English
language_search English
scb_finding_aids Paper handlist available
scb_related_material Further papers relating to CNCo property can be found in JSSI 6/1-5 and legal papers concerning deeds, purchases etc in JSSIII 9
hierarchy_top_id_raw JSS
hierarchy_sequence JSS.003.004

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