TAIKOO CHINESE NAVIGATION COMPANY

In the face of increasing nationalist sentiments by 1930, particularly in the Szechuan [Sichuan] Province, it was decided to establish a new company to handle the Upper Yangtze trade. The company was registered in Hong Kong in March 1930 and was intended to be an Anglo-Chinese Company with a proport...

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Archive & Special Collections JSS/8 Open

Date(s) of creation: 1902-1942
Level: Sub-collection
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id JSS.8
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber JSS/8
callnumber_txt JSS/8
callnumber-sort JSS/8
scb_alt_ref_no JSSVIII
prefix_number 8
title TAIKOO CHINESE NAVIGATION COMPANY
scb_date_creation 1902-1942
scb_level Sub-collection
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 5 boxes
format Archive
description In the face of increasing nationalist sentiments by 1930, particularly in the Szechuan [Sichuan] Province, it was decided to establish a new company to handle the Upper Yangtze trade. The company was registered in Hong Kong in March 1930 and was intended to be an Anglo-Chinese Company with a proportion of the shares held by Chinese, which were initially held by Taikoo compradores and employees but were designed for outsiders. Five steamers, WANHSIEN, WANLIU, WANTUNG, SUISHAN, SUITING, were sold by the China Navigation Company [CNCo] to the new company and CNCo through Butterfield & Swire were appointed as local agents at the ports where CNCo were already established. Little documentary evidence of the formation and running of this company remains in the archive, apart from the few files listed below the other references to it are mainly within the records of CNCo (JSSIII) and in the Shanghai Master File.
scb_related_name_code GB/NNAF/C123201
GB/SOASNAF/C309
GB/NNAF/C215949
scb_related_name_relationship Subject of
Subject of
Subject of
scb_place_code 1819730
1814991
1269750
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
hierarchy_top_id_raw JSS
hierarchy_sequence JSS.008

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