Board papers including site visits, reports on tea estates, factories and business interests

Scope and Content

Board members working papers records include;

  • Site inspections of factories;
  • Site inspection of tea estates;
  • Site inspection of rubber estates;
  • Site inspection of timber estates;
  • Financial and sales reviews;
  • Review and assessments of business strategy;
  • Dissolved company papers;
  • Science reports.

Administrative / Biographical History

Records include working papers from Finlay Board members site visits made by Finlay Board members to companies' tea, agricultural, timber and rubber estates.

Board papers includes information relating to all Finlay subsidiary / associated companies'. Records relating to the listed subsidiary companies' below are dispersed through out Board papers. Refer to related material.

  • Finlay Flowers Limited;
  • James Finlay Colombo;
  • Rare mentions of Finlay Sheets;
  • Hapugastenne and Udapussellawa Plantations Limited.

Access Information

30 year closure period on all records. Data Protection Act restrictions for any records containing personal information.

Conditions Governing Use

Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use and condition of documents. Applications for permission to publish should be submitted sent to the University Archivist; any work intended for publication may require advance approval by Finlays, Archives & Special Collections staff will advise.

Related Material

Board papers' GB 248 UGD 091/1/1/4/1 and GB 248 UGD 091/1/1/4/2;

Inter Country Plantation Meeting GB 248 UGD 091/1/1/4/6;

Directors' and Executives' notes GB 248 UGD 091/1/1/9;

Yield statements GB 248 UGD 091/1/1/15;

Records of Swire Group takeover GB 248 UGD 091 1/2/8;

Mr John F Muir's Travancore visit GB 248 UGD 091/1/10/3/2/2/4;

Records of Hapugastenne and Udapussellawa Plantations Limited GB 248 UGD 091/74.