Africa, Southern: Cement companies, 1919-1965
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 412/65
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- (item 1) Pretoria Portland Cement Co. Ltd.: Printed and cyclostyled reports and shareholders' circulars (documents clipped into binder), salary scales, pensions fund, etc., 1919-1963
- folder 1 (fols. 1-25) Union Lime Co. Ltd.: Copies of correspondence between the London and Johannesburg offices about this company's activities, especially in relation to those of the Group's Northern Lime Company, 1950-1963
- folder 2 (fols. 1-22) Chilanga Cement Ltd., and (from its formation in 1963) United Portland Cement Company (Private) Ltd.: Copies of correspondence concerning the development of these companies in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (Zambia and Zimbabwe), respectively, 1954-1964.
General files, containing copies of correspondence and memoranda relating to investigations into the materials of the cement industry, and developments within it, as well as to negotiations over prices, wages (particularly, in 1961, wages for indigenous workers), and methods of transport:
- folder 3 (fols. 1-65 and item 1) including (duplicated) Report on The Cement Industry in Canada 1940 (item 1, 19 pp.), 1942-May 1951
- folder 4 (fols. 1-94, items 1-3) including typescript copies of statements submitted by the Executive Committee of the South African Cement Producers to the Commission (items 1 and 2), and the latter's printed Report the Commission to enquire into the Cement Shortage, 1952 (item 3, 25 pp.), Sep 1951-Jun 1955
- folder 5 (fols. 1-96) Mar 1956-Dec 1960
- folder 6 (fols. 1-32) the extent of the Central Mining/Rand Mines Group interests and the location of limestone deposits and cement factories are shown in charts (fols. 28-32), Mar 1961-Oct 1962; Mar 1964-Mar 1965.
See also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 412/34, folders 5 and 7.
Dates
- Creation: 1919-1965
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 412/65
Repository Details
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