General correspondence

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 199/3/8/2
• Dates of Creation:1945-1981
• Physical Description:
  1 6 filing box,files and 5 items.

• Scope and Content

  • Letter from Aitken, Spence & Co, Ltd to Wm Thomson & Co, Managers Ben Line Steamers Ltd, 1945;
  • Letter to Messrs. Sandilands, Buttery & Co, Ltd from unnamed sender, 1947;
  • Correspondence with Paterson, Simons & Co Ltd, 1947-1988;
  • Correspondence regarding confidential defence materials issued to SS Ballarat, later Benledi VII, when owned by P&O, 1950-1975;
  • Correspondence with A. S. Kinnear, Singapore Manager, 1951-1958;
  • Correspondence regarding meetings with Mr Asada, Japanese Ministry of Transportation and a freight conference, 1955;
  • Memorandum regarding delivery of Benarty (ex Empire Wallace) at Rotterdam on 6 Apr, 1956;
  • Letter from British Liner Committee with enclosed copy of Report on Brussels Meeting of the Diplomatic Conference, 1957;
  • Letter and enclosures sent to A. S. Kinnear, Far East Management, from Ben Line, 1958;
  • Correspondence with Charles Connell & Co Ltd, 1960;
  • Letter from J. P. Young, Secretary, The Ben Line Steamers Ltd to H. R. MacLeod, The Ben Line Steamers Ltd, 1971;
  • Correspondence relating to a fire at The Ben Line Steamers' Port Kelang office, 1981.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Sporadic correspondence with various individuals, both internal and external, as well as other bodies, kept by the company mainly because of items of interest within correspondence.

• Arrangement

  Arranged chronologically within record series.