River and Mercantile Trust Records

Records of the River Plate Trust Loan and Agency Company Ltd, 1876-1978, including minutes, ledgers, registers, accounts, annual reports, legal documents, insurance records, staff records, letters and files, some relating to subordinate companies (Ref: A); and records of the subsidiary companies it administered: River Plate and General Investment Company Ltd, comprising minutes, 1888-1965, ledgers, 1888-1941, and annual reports, 1889-1983 (Ref: B) Mortgage Company of the River Plate Ltd, comprising minutes, 1888-1965, ledgers, 1888-1953, and annual reports, 1888-1981 (Ref: C) Compagnie Française des Chemins de Fer de la Province de Santa Fé, comprising circulars to bondholders, 1891-1947, and reports, 1936-1947 (Ref: D) London Trust Company, comprising ledgers, 1889-1928, registers of stock, 1889-1958, and miscellaneous papers, 1819-1974 (Ref: E) Entre Rios Railway Company, comprising reports, 1891-1900, and circulars and minutes, 1933-1947 (Ref: F) Cucuta Railway Company, comprising Presidents' reports, 1926-1936 (Ref: G) Montevideo Waterworks, comprising reports and accounts, 1880-1940, and notices and circulars, 1949-1953 (Ref: H) Consolidated Waterworks of Rosario, comprising reports and accounts, 1897-1946, and notices and circulars, 1930-1955 (Ref: J) Rosario Drainage Company, comprising reports and accounts, 1898-1947, and notices and circulars, 1955 (Ref: K) Buenos Aires Central Railway, comprising minutes, 1916-1944 (Ref: L) Buenos Aires and Lacroze Tramways, comprising minutes, 1932-1940, and reports and accounts, 1933-1941 (Ref: M). A further deposit comprised of notes made from the archives of the River Plate Trust Loan and Agency Company by Charles and Linda Jones in 1972 prior to the destruction of the archive and a short account of the original records and the work undertaken, was deposited in 2017. The original material, from which the notes were made, dated from c1882-1917.

Notes made from the archives of the River Plate Trust Loan and Agency Company by Charles and Linda Jones in 1972. The archives were destroyed by the firm when the firm was dissolved following the 1976 military coup. The original material, from which the notes were made, dated from c1882-1917. Also includes a short account of the original records and the work undertaken by Charles and Linda Jones

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The River Plate Trust Loan and Agency Company Ltd (founded in 1881), which administered various companies in South America, was succeeded in 1961 by the River Plate and Mercantile Trust Ltd (later the River and Mercantile Trust PLC).